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So you thought computing was all about spreadsheets, 
specifications and shoot-em-up$ huh? Well here's the 
world of the wild, the wonderful, and the plain wacky** 

PHONE-Y DISKS CON 
THE COPS r 


A confidence trick which 
took In thousands of people, 
including the police, has 
been nipped in the bud. 

The sting went ahead 
following BFs (formerly British 
Telecom^ controversial decision 
to charge users 44 pence for 
thg use of directory enquiries. A 
company called Computer 
Information Services, operating 
from the address of Mr Alan 
Roberts in Cardiff, advertised a 
£99 floppy bisk which, the 
company claimed in its adverts, 
contained every phone number 
in the UK. 

It was not just naive 
members pf the general public 
who were taken in by the 
phoney floppy. Cheshire 
constabulary, several local 
councils, and many businesses 
also paid out cash for a service 
which never materialised. 

Detective constable Jeff 
Norman of the South Wales ClD 
explained to Express: “We 
caught on to the affair in March 
this year, although accounts had 
been opened in Robert's name". 

While no computers were ever 
actually involved in the scam, 

DC Norman toW us: “From what 
we can tell, the man obviously 
knew what he was talking about. 

People phoned him up to ask 
about the disk and he gave all 

BIG BLUE 
GOES GREEN 

IBM is following Apple Computers in a 
bk) to become en virorment-friendly. 

Apple has already been making ecp- 
conscious noises about removing CFCs 
from 45 products, now IBM has gone one 
step further by instigating a multHnilhon 
dollar research initiative. 

According to Big Blue, as IBM is 
affectionately known, It is a major research 
programme intended to encourage the use 
of computer-based technology in the study 
of environmental problems". 

These problems include ground water 
pollution, ozone depletion and waste 
disposal. 'Whether or not IBM is considering 
bundling screen filters as standard with all 
its machines has yet to be stated by the 
American computer giant.» 


the right answers", 

According to a spokesman 
for BT this week: ‘There are 1 7 
million names and addresses on 
the database at the moment", In 
order to accommodate this 
much data, the disk would have 
to be formatted to an utterly 
implausible 122,400 k, ki real 
terms, however, notone disk 
but 340, each formatted to 
360K, would have to be used. 

The man called Roberts has 
DbvioListy got wise to police 
investigations. Since they began 
six weeks ago, he has not 
bothered to return to his 
address to collect the loot whic h 
keeps pouring in. 

Dud disks were 
supposed to 
contain all the 
phone numbers in 
Britain 


We asked DC Norman just 
how much money was involved: 
*We are looking at thousands 
rather than hundreds of pounds. 
We have all ready discovered a 
number of financial accounts' 1 . 
6T finally called in the police 



* TTpjT tnan rj stupefied of iOiining 

thaewmds of people out of possMy 
over £190,000 with one floppy 
disk. How did he do Where did 
he do it, where's the ntenef 
oow,md do you know himt 

because it was concerned that ii 
might be losing money from its 
CD-ROM based Phone Disc and 
PC-based Phone Base systems. 
According to the BT 
spokesman: “As faF as I know, 
all numbers in Telecom 
directories are copyright BT\ 
This means that any company 
which wished to provide a 
service such as the one 
promised in die Cardiff con, 
would have to abide by the 
laws of copyright. 

*We have no plans to take 
legal action against firms 
who set up rival systems as 
long as they play by the 
rules", said the BT 
spokesman. 

If you have any information 
or have been conned by CIS, 
you should call the South Wales 
ClD on 0222-222111 and ask 
for she Canton squad. ■ 


Totally 

barbaric 

behaviour 


Barbarian Mf, is currently under 
development by Storm - die software 
house responsible for the higHy 
acclaimed' SWIV. Also in the planning 
stages is a him of the classic beat- 
ern np As yet no details are 
available as to the star of the mavis. 
But with Sly Stallone attempting to 
became a serious comedy actor. 
fme spending less time with bis 
Quzi and mere with little children, 
and Dolpfi Lundgrcn not doing very 
modi at ad, the held Is open. 

Fxpreis readers witfi suggestions 
far who should get to play die 
Barbarian should be addressed to our 
new cohunnist, Dr Clare Anthony at 
Express MM ■ 



* Bnrkrien 111 If on Mr way. 
And so is the fdtn - whe do you 
think should play Borhie? 


SHOOT FROM THE LIP 


Yes, after an absence of 
nearly two years, Shoot 
From the Lip has been 
forced to return. In this 
regular weekly section you 
will read some of the most 
contentious. Stupid, funny or 
downright absurd statements 
mads in the computer world. 


“I'm sorry i cafl r f give you that 
information". The receptionist at 
an Atlanta Hotel next fo the 
Comdex show when asked for 
the time. 

‘He obviously knew what he was 
talking shout". Detective 
constable Jeff Norman talking 
about the mao behind the 
Cardiff phone con. 




r SMALLS ^ 

Sony dating that it has killed the 
CD with the introduction of its 
new 2.5-inch Mini Disk or MO 
Users wil l, far the first time, be 
able to both play and record 
digitally. But isn't that what it 
said about the ill-fated digital 
It audio tape IDATl? J 



“We feel that youVe missed a 
trick here. Wfe were trying to 
^ present Atari In a positive 
light, and your coverage 
was distinctly 
downbeat. We are 
B 9 especially 

disappointed that you 
I A printed the SkV'O T 

wSI Mtifysis*. 

WS Atari UK's marketing 
F * manager, Peter Staddon 
,/V in response to our 
▼ coverage of his company's 
latest repositioning of the ST 
m the market, a 


Revolutionary time travels 


If you're thinking of taking a holiday as-rand this year why not head 
_for Gaston where the 'People and Computers: Milestones in a 
Revolution' is about to ofren. 

The expo starts on 25 June and features computers as diverse 
and fascinating as the 45-year-old ENIAC, the ZtTyearHjId Infell 4QD4 
processor, and the giant Walkthru computer - only one-year-old. 

Visitors get to travel down nine Time tunnels' which culminate in 
fife-sized reconstructions of situations in which computers played a 
major part These include a 1930's, government office replete wtth 
hundreds of clerks toiling away at punch card machines, a 1960's 
Travelers Insurance Company where IBM’s System/3S0 is used, and 
the 1970's where Digital Equipment's PDF-8 is used in train surgery 
and in the lighting central station of Broadway's A Chorus Line. 

The site of this feast of computer nostalgia is Boston's Computer 
Museum, which is claimed to be the only museum In the world 
dedicated to examining, the impact of computers. 

Call 0101-617 4£6 2S00 or fax 0101-617 426 2943. ■ 



* Two of /he world's first rampa/er operators: Jodi Gtfawr (left) 
mi Joe Thompson of NttT in 1951. The anahgoe Hmpirtmq engine 
they ore using has less professing power than a Sinclair Spettrvm. 


omputer Olympiad • Interactive museum • Pheney di 


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UK SCHOOLBOYS COMPETE 
IN COMPUTER OLYMPICS 


Three Manchester 
schoolboys are currently 
competing in a computer 
Olympiad. Athens is the site 
of the international event in 
which pupils from 20 
countries pit their wits 
against each other in an 
attempt to solve two 
algorithms in two days. 

Last year's competition took 
place m the Soviet Union, and 
the winners walked off with art 
treasures worth f5,000. 

The pri^e in 1991's 
Computer Olympics is being 
kept a tight secret until the 
victorious team is announced. 

UK computer hardware 
makers ICL is sponsoring the 
team of three 17-year-oMs: 
David Walker, Anthony ftix and 
Edward Sheldon (plus substitute 
Martin Brooks) who all attend 
the Manchester Grammar 



* Campaten in schools have gone far beyond the BASK programming mi 
typing skids phase - it's now gal os far as Athens* 


School. The lads had to make 
their way through a qualifying 
competition which they won 
outfight. ICL is putting this down 
to the (act that it has been 
donating equipment, such as a 
DfiS-3QQ PC, to the school for 


aver two years. 

Speaking about the team, 
school career's master Leri Rix 
said: They are incredibly 
competent and I am sure that 
they will do everyone credit in 
the international competition". * 



outwits on 





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A 19y$af-a!d called Baron M ajc-tte-, 
aka Doc Savage, has pleaded guilty 
to third degree compute fraud in 
the US, He was arrested after 
allegedly charging $3,000- worth 
of calk to Toys 'R' Us. The 
maximum penalty for this crime 
V k ten years in Arisen, yS 




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* w j. telephone. 

_ Days before the Spurs star was hauled off to hospital with an 

KILO C KS ! ewespmely nasty injury to the studs, he'd signed an exclusive contract 

unto telephone game outfit, The Phone Program Company. Now the 
The man who invented Tetris, England Ace can dial into a game against Ns own self. Gama's Hat- 

possibly the most addictive game trick Hotline challenges callers to answer fertdisMy tough puzzlers 
in the entire history of the world, is * en soccer trivia, with cash prizes tor brainy football buffs, 
working on another mindbendex- a TPPC's David Martin is happy. He thinks Gazu wll bedecking 
Alexey Pajitinov is now busy coding W up calls day and night. Gazzz's Hrtfrfdk Hotline is on QBGS 3«9B5. 
on Hafri?. The game will probably % Calfe MSI 34p (cheap rate] or 44p per minute. ■ 
become one af the USSR's major t 
exports In 1992. ^ 


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COMPUTER CURES COBBERS 


new 

system which could save 
thousands of lives by saving 
time, is being developed in 
Australia. 

Teleview is able 10 transmit 
high resolution images of X-rays 
and ultrasound scans in 
compressed formal from 
outlying areas to major 
hospitals. The compression 
means that the images can be 
sent via modem without the 
danger of ‘noise' on the line 
corrupting the data. 

The system is not confined 
to still images. A frame grabber 


can take single photographs 
from any moving film. 

leJevigw has been developed 
by Peter Dahrmgn, a 
neurosurgeon at the Royal 
Melbourne Hospital. It is aimed 
particularly at speeding up 
diagnosis of illness which occur 
in the depths of the Australian 
outback. ■ 

* Owe upon a lam onty Happy 
tovfd have saved the Aufiht in 
the outback from certain dnatL 
Haw a computer and a madam tart. 



Its • • Green machines • 


CONTENTS 


COVER FE, 


Are you looking 
for the perfect 
palmtop PC? 

Hewlett Packard's 
amazing new 95LX 
could be the one for 
you - turn to page 55 


REVI 



Could you benefit from top 
quality glossy colour print-outs? 

GP's Spectra*Star 430 delivers the 
goods at the right price - page 49 


Fed up with typing? 
Now all you have to 
do is speak! 

Yes, voice control is here 
-and it comes on a 



sampler too! - page 52 


Want to use all your favourite 
programs simultaneously? 

The latest version of Switcfvlt brings all 
the benefits of multi-tasking - page 56 


All the top stories - pages 4-8 


Games Week 

Hot tips and news, 
plus TQKI review 
- page 50 


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Your last chance to win the First Steps 
Amigo education pack - page 66 



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Amiga 

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Wired World 

29 

ST 

17 

Circuit City 

30 

PC 

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Tech Tip* 

32 

Archimedes 

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Programming 

40 

C64 

22 

Event Horizon 

41 

CPC 

22 

On-line 

42 

Spectrum 

US 

PD Column 

46 


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THIS WEEK 


EWS 


The 11 th annual Comdex Spring attracts record attendance figures 




■ The tmte r th* pfa «, fie cmotfed tom VOQ exh&ttors freer th* 
§r«f I* the obuun. Htw foaadits abounded, jpeedies were made, Jwfe- 
hwh computing took centre stay e, and miti-medw wot ztM a tcfAimj point. 


T his year's Comdex show took 
place in Atlanta Georgia 
between 20 and 23 May. 
According to tile organism, 
Interface, it attracted an estimated 
900 exhibitors. These included 
names such as Microsoft, Citizen, 
WordPerfect, and Samsung, as won 
as less well known companies like 
Darios, Experience Systems, and 
Egghead Software. 

Although the attendance figures 
haw not be con-dated yet, 

Interface ate claiming a record 
number of visitors, boating the 
previous record of SI ,000 set over 
four days at McCormick Place 
Chicago in 19S9. 

Tire chairman of Interface, and 
founding father of die Comdex 
show, Sheldon Ad elsoo. was 
ebullent about the 1991 show: 

‘This ndustiy is making a soccesful 
and historic transition. As it has 
done on previous occasions, the 
industry is using the Comdex 


platform, and the critical! mass of 
the audience, to lift itself and the 
world economy into a new era of 
productivity*. 

What he failed to note was the 


fact that this year's show is also the 
birthplace of a fast approaching 
notebook war which, could after the 
face of personal computing over 
the next decade. 


NOTEBOOKS: SPECS ARE 
UP AS PRICES FALL 

As data commumcahDn speeds 
up, the world shrinks, arid per¬ 
sonal computing follows suite. 
Comdex saw a glut of portable 
power with notebook, laptop 
and handheld computer 
launches announced. 

The world's first notebook 
computer using Intel's latest 
SQ486 chip was on show. 
However, the 386 is not dead 
yet, as a number of previews 
and launches illustrated. Despite 
this, a number of manufacturers 
are all ready having to drop the 
prices of their existing 286 and 
386 machines in anticipation of 
the greater processing power 
differed by the i486. 

THE RISING STARS 

The Notebook Computer Co: 
World's First 486 notebook 

The seven-month-old Notebook 


Computer Company previewed 
what 4 is claiming to be the Sigh- 
est, cheapest and first 
4865X-based laptop. The 486- 
T20 attracted docks of 
interested observers to the 
Notebook stand. While they 
were impressed with the specify 
ations and price of $4,496, 
general disappointment was felt 
at the fact that the machine was 
not yet up and running! 

The 20MHz version comes 
with a software-based maths co¬ 
processor emulator, 20Mb hard 
disk, 1Mb of RAM and a VGA 
screen. There is a more expen¬ 
sive version, the 33MHz DX 
costing $6,795 This- packs a 
80387 maths coprocessor, 
40Mb hard disk, VGA display 
and 1Mb of RAM, 

Both machines measure 8.5 
x 11 x 1.4 inches, which is 
about the size of a ream of A4 
paper. They weigh 4-5 pounds. 


and have MS-DOS 4.1, and 
fapfrnk built into ROM, Ports axe 
provided with an 0-7 inch thick 
add-on pad called ePad. This 
has an analogue colour port, 
3.5-inch floppy drive, Disney 
Sound digital audio speaker sys¬ 
tem, and a CD-ROM compatible 
SCSI dnwe. 

The official launch date for 
the computers is late June, with 
the ePad to follow in July. 

Fujitsu and AST: handhelds 

At the same time as these 
machines were previewed, both 
Fujitsu and AST were showing 
off their lastest 32-bit personal 
computers in Japan. 

Fujitsu came forward with its 
FMR5-0NGX machine. At its heart 
is Hie a 16MHz 386SX proces¬ 
sor. Three types of drive are 
bundled with the computer: a 
3.5-inch 1.44Mb (loppy drive, a 
logical 1,25 RAM drive, and an 


Canon fires at the home and office 


Canon has released three 2 DM HZ 803WSX bared PCs 
aimed at th# booming home and office marketplace. 
The machines, announced at Comdex Spring, are 
bunded With MS-DOS 4-01, Microsoft Works, Windows 
and a starter kit tor the Prodigy on-line service. 

Canon is offering each of the three machines - the 
C200 M50/HD40, M5Q/HDW and MW/HD 120 - In 
four configurations: standard, Which includes the 
computer, keyboard, software and PS/2 mouse; 
standard with the addition of a VGA monitor: standard 
with the addition of a Canon bubblejet printer and 
paper feeder; arid maximum, with both a VGA monitor 
and bubblejet printer. 

Pricing on the machines starts at S1.99S for a 
standard configuration of the C20Q M5Q/HD40. to 
$3,568 for the Maximum configuration of the high-end 


C200 M55/HD120, 

Th* C20O M5Q/HJ4Q has a 4QMb hard drive with a 
28ms access speed, 1Mb of RAM (expandable to 8Mb] 
and four L 8-brt expansion skis. Other features include 
VGA graphic®, Vtm serial ports and a single parallel 
port Th* C 200 M50/NDS0 comes with a 17ms 86MB 
hard drive and 2MB of RAm. Other specifications are 
as with the M5C/HIMC. 

The C200 M5O/HD120 is the flagship of the range 
and comes with 2Mb of HAM, a 15ms 120MB hard 
drive and a 2400 bits p*r second Hayes-compatible 
modem. The modem occupies one of the machines 
four available expansion slots. 

According to a spokesman for Canon, the 
M50/UWQ and M5Q/HD120 will ship in the U.S, from 
next month onwards. The M50/HD80 ships in August 


integrated circuit card slot, 
ft has a 16-colour LCD, back¬ 
lit screen. And the whole thing 
weighs iu at 5.7 pounds, Its 
price starts at ¥258,000 
(approx £1„840), 

Fujitsu has not stopped there 
however, rt also announced a 
16-bit handheld computer, The 
Acutote 3000 is a DOS-compati¬ 
ble machine which is said to be 
the same size as a conventional 
scientific calculator, 

The computer makes use of 
cards which offer up to 2Mb of 
memory. Th? conventional 
RS232 interface has been 
replaced by an optical version 
which Fujitsu claims is more reli¬ 
able. Price has not yet been 
announced for this machine. 

AST is als-o introducing a 
notebook its Premium Executive 
386SX 120. It runs both DOS 
4.1 and Windows 3- The central 
processor is a 20MHz 386SX 
chip which supports a 640 x 
480 VGA display. It costs 
approximately £2,325, and AST 
says that it expects only 4.500 
units to be shipped this in 1991. 

Altima's attempt 

Meanwhile, back at Comdex, 
Altima was shewing off its 6.3 
pound. $2,999 386SX note 
book, it comes with the, by now 
standard 1Mb of RAM, expand¬ 
able to 5Mb. However, its VGA 
display makes use of both LCD 
and cold Cathode lluore scent 
technology (CCTl to provide 32 
shades of grey. The next step 
up the line from Altima is a 
60Mb hard dnve version due 
later this year. 


THE FALLEN HEROES 

With notebooks rapidly taking 
over as the next stage in PC 
evolution, some desk, and even 
laptop makers felt it was time 
for price cuts. 

Zenith at the nadir 

Zenith announced (hat it was 
cutting the prices of its laptop 
and desktop machines across 
the board, This is the second 
price cut made by the company 
in 60 days. 

The unhappy star of the price 
massacre is the Z-336/33E 
model 150 desktop. This falls in 
price by $3,000. The 
Supersipart 396SX Model 40 fol¬ 
lows this with a $600 cut. The 
z-386/25 model 1, the only 
computer in Zenith's range not 
to include DOS 4,1 and Windows 
3 on the hard disk falls by 
$ 1 , 000 . 

Texas Instruments tune down 

Tl is also to 'slash 1 the prices of 
its computer. Specifically the 
TravelMate series of 286 and 
386 notebooks. The TravelMate 
3000 with a 20Mb hard disk, 
which only went on sale in 
December 1990, drops from 
$5,499 to $3,199. While the 
286-based TravelMate 2000 has 
$830 sheared from its price to 
take it from $3,199 to $2,369. 

Samsung the same song 

Samsung was fallowing suit with 
price cuts on its 16MHz 
Note-master senes of notebooks 
and its LAN workstation and file 
server systems. 

The 20Mb hard drive version 





Is this the lightest laser ever? 

Personal computers are not the only pieces of computing hardware which 
can. be shrunk la lap tire while retaining power. The machine with the 
biggest Wow*' factor at Comdex this year its undoubtedly Citizen's PN48 
Notebook "Hear Less' Printer which weighs a mere 2,5 pounds (including 
battery), for only $549. 

It's ,11,5 x 3.5 x 2 Inches, and sits next to your notebook computer. 
Qtizin calls (he PN48 (he “World's Smallest U«r-0ualHy Printer.' It 
prints on plain paper, including envelopes and labels, and its software 
compatible with Citizen GSX, Epson and IBM emulations, 


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THIS WEEK 


NEW 


and exhibits the latest multi-media, 486 computing, and more 





Playing a new Ensemble 

Thera is another Graphic User 




• Texas follows o 

retent tr$nd md slashes the prices 
of its TravelMate term. Ufa* this 
hOtttOie of the world retenfon or 
is ready the tampan? for 0 new 
hatth of 486-hased tmchines? 

falls 30 per cent, from $3,999 
to $2,799. its 40 meg 
Nntemaster slips by 28 per cent 
from $4,299 to 3,095, and the 
60Mb machine drops 24 per 
cent from $4,499 la $3,399. 

It 5 not dll bad news for 
Samsung however; ft has also 
revealed plans tor its first UNIX- 
based, 18 inch terminal. Based 
on AMDs 29000 RISC proces¬ 
sor, it is called the SGS-19X 
Windows System:. On top of this 
is the System master 
486/33TE, a 33MHz machine 
based on the 486 EISA architec¬ 
ture, Entry level pnce 15 $7,699 
rising to $31,000, » 


Interface for die PC aside from the 
much talked about Windows 3, and 
It's called Gasworks Ensemble. The 
upgrade to this software was 
announced at Comdex. The new 
version 1.2 of Ensemble builds on 
the original version, and includes a 
number of new features, including 
support for more Iran 300 printers 
and a 100,000 word spelling 
checker. The package is 
scheduled to ship si the end of 
June, Registered users will be 
entitiad to upgrade free of charge. 
Pricing remains unchanged at 
$199-99. 

"Verson 1.2 addresses the 
most immediate upgrade features 


that Our users have requested," 
said Brian Dougherty, CEO of the 
company. “We wanted to provide 
Ensemble 1.2 free to registered 
users of vl.O in recognition of their 
early commitment to the company 
and the product* 

A new licensing deal allows the 
Philips to bundle Ensemble with all 
of its PCs. Initially, plans cal I for 
Philips to bundle Ensemble 1.2 
with its 336, 386SX and new 236 
notebook PCs. GevwDrks also 
revealed that its GEM 
commitments now exceed 
600.00C units. 

According to Dougherty, 
European languange editions ate 
ready to ship. 


Goldstar was also present at 
Comdex. It exhibited two of its 
more recent PC productions in the 
form of the laptop G5420, and the 
tt&SX-troed G5333 desktop 
machine. The latter runs at a 
sprightly 33MHz. 

While these machines are not 


Another big hit at Comdex 
was PixoArts new image edit¬ 
ing program PixoFoto. 

Selling for $800, the package 
is designed far graphic artists 
wishing to work quickly with 24- 
bit images and enables users to 
edit, colounse and retouch up to 


expected to be soon in the UK until 
next year, there us a UK equivalent 
system to the 333 ell ready 
available here. 

This is the GS 335 Tower 
system which costs £2.8BS.B3. It 
is available from Silica Shop on 
091-309 111. 


window environment. PmoFoto 
uses a TIGA interface running off 
a Texas instrument's 340x0 
graphics processor board- 
For more information call 
PixoArts on Old 415 323 
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24-bit image editing for your PC 

16 images at price in 3 multiple 


Modern multimedia 


The persimalisBd information revolution is just 
beginning'. So claimed IBM vice-president, 
Michael Braun in a special address to assembled 
Comdex crowds. Ttia value of mritimedia ties in 
parsoiLalisaition, not only do people want It 
they're willing to pay for ft', he predicted, "and 
that represents an erwirwis opportunity'. IBM’s 
vision of personalised information systems 
includes computerised televisions, inteflligent 
information selectors and vast sources tit data 
and sensory stimulae all connected and packed 
on one disc. 

Smart TV Is one of the projected money 
spinners, with Braun predicting the advent of an 
interactive television ft# can monitor all news 
feeds and selectively tape any programs that it 
knows will s»*t your personal tastes. 

While this is still some way off, Braun gave 
details of a current project being jointly 
developed by IBM and Synapse Technologies.. 

The Columbus Project Is an interactive teaming 
curriculum' that covers the- life and times of 
Christopher Columbus containing rttore than 150 
hours of material. 

However, Braun insists that multimedia is stall 
m its infancy and that three fundamental things 
need to happen for it to flourish, Firstly, 


developers of muitimwSa applications must 
reduce development times, secondly, the price of 
authoring and end-user systems must drop and 
finally common standards need to bo forged. 
Enlarging on the challenge further. Braun 
presented a lap ten list of developments which 
must occur for personal multimedia to emerge. 

Excerpts from Columbus's 
diaries, history books, 
reference works, film 
clips and interviews are 
all cross-referenced 

Here's the list In descending enter, 

* IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Commodore must 
agree on data standards and applications 
programming interfaces 

# CO-fiOM drive prices need te drop to below 
$200 and capacities need to increase 

• PCs with ftMI-motiofli video abilities should only 
cost i similar amount more than other PCs like a 
colour monitor costs more than a mom monitor. 



* Applications developers must have access to 
all the required tools and services from source 

* Customers must drive the industry not wee 
versa 

i A national charing house of copyright material 
Should be set up to allow easy access to 'media' 
objects 

i Easy access to multimedia data wherever it 
resides 

V Full-motion video tides must self for around 
$25 and. the players tor less than $500 

* There must be an abundance of top-notch 
business tides launched as soon as possible 

* The information interface should be so 
personal and usable that millions more people 
will use multimedia in their everyday lives. 


Instant photo 
quality on 
a printer 

Although it costs $18,000, 
Mitsubishi's CHC S445 full- 
colour printer is a bargain for 
anyone wanting photographic 
quality results. 

Atlanta punters were amazed 
to see fugh-resoltiDn scans ol 
themselves appearing minutes 
later as glossy photographs. The 
machine offers 24-bit colour and 
300 dpi resolution, working with 
a process of 'non impact dye- 
sublumabon' thermal printing. 

Print speEd varies according 
to colour mode, with a speed of 
150 seconds per page m 64 
tone mode displaying 260,000 
cotours, and 300 seconds per 
page in 25$ tone mode, capable 
of displaying 16 million colours, 
More information from 
Mitsubishi New Vork on 0101 
914 997 4999 




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THIS WEEK 


NEWS 


Opening a 
new window 


Microsoft has announced the 
launch of tfsuaf BASIC. a 
programming bundle for Fts 
Windows operating system. 

The package combines a 
Windows compiler, visual design 
tools and a powerful BASIC inter¬ 
preter. Microsoft chief executive 
officer Bill Gates said of the bun¬ 
dle; "We set out to create the 
fastest, easiest way to program 
for Windows. We also wanted 
this tool to appeal to the broad 
mainstream of people interested 
m programming for Windows’. 

Programs created using 
Msuaf 8ASIC, can be compiled 
mto .EXE (executable) files and 
then freely distributed. And as 
far as Microsoft is concerned 
users don't even have to pay 
royalties on this. 

Companies already using the 
system include Reuters and 
Credit Lyonmaise, 

To use Msuaf BASIC you will 
require Windows 3, a minimum 
of a 286 PC, hard disk, mouse, 
and 1Mb of memory, Price for 
die bundle rs £163.32. However, 
if you currently own Microsoft 
BASIC development kit, and 
Microsoft QuickBASIC - and have 
registered as such - you can 
upgrade for £92.82. 

Call 0734 391123. m 



IBM is claiming that its latest 
121-chip ceramic package 
has broken all records for 
the transmissions, of elec- 
Ironic signals. The company 
has proudly announced that 
the system can transmit at 
200 million miles per hour. 

This comes at a time when 
Gal'urn Arsenide (GAJ is coming 
to the fore as the fastest 
medium for data, which is basi¬ 
cally electronic signal trans¬ 
mission. IBM's ceramic package 
is still years from commerical 
application, but it does offer 
serious competition to both GA 
and silicicm-based systems. 


Boxing clever 


Time travel with a difference 


Are you a disk junkie? Da 
you own more floppies than 
you can handle? Computer 
furniture manufacturer 
Accodata reckons it has the 
solution.. 

The Disk File comprises 
5-25-indt and 3 5 inch 
disks bows, which can be 
built into blocks to 
whatever sue you require. 
So. instead of timing for 
that obscure program, you 
will find rt neatly filed away 
io its own bo*, free is £60 
for 300 disks. ■ 



If time travelling maniacs are 
your idea of good sport then 
check out Electronic Arts' 
Zone Warrior. 

ITs a frantic multodirectiorval 
platform game featuring five 
rime zones of human history. 
Youll be persuaded to chase an 
unsavoury band of aliens who 
have stumbled across a time 
hole and decided to wreak terri¬ 
ble havoc through the ages. 

The five spots you'll be visit¬ 
ing include Prehistoric, Egyptian, 
Mediaeval, Ancient Japanese 
and, of course, Post Nuclear. 
Don't forget to pack your big 
guns, there’ll be plenty of bad- 
efies to eliminate. Its out on the 



* Zone Warrior: those onrxenf 
Egyptians guvs c worn wekome to 
their alien friends from the fvtwe , 

ST, Amiga and PC at (tie end of 
the month tor £25.99. ■ 


Microsoft versus Apple: the battle takes a new twist 

GRAPHICS ADD-ON 
SPEEDS WINDOWS 


The battle between Microsoft 
Windows and Apple's graphic 
interface. System 7, heated 
up this week with news of a 
new graphic controller chip. 

The W5086 from Weitek in 
the US is claimed by its manufac¬ 
turers to speed up (he running of 
Windows on 286, 386, and the 
new 4B6-ba5ed F"Cs. 

The chip works by incorporat¬ 
ing the key Windows commands 
and functions into its hardware. It 
passes the previously software- 
based screen-draw calls to the 
PC's wdeo controller ch p. This 
lightens The workload of [fie main 
processor and consequently 
speeds up operations Df both the 
Windows itself and of applies 
tions running under it 

Wertek claims that the chip is 
compatible with the video graph¬ 
ics (VGA) screen standard, and 


will also work with existing non- 
Windcws based software. It 
works in monochrome providing 
2,048 x 1,024 pixels resolution, 
hi 16 colour mode, 800 x 600 
pixels are available, and 256 
colours gives 640 x 480 pixels. 

Industry pundits have been 
predicting such a chip since the 
initial launch of the Windows sys¬ 
tem. The added speed which is 
claimed will be provided by the 
chip provides a massive filip to 
Microsoft's aspirations in the pro 
longed Mac versus PC battto- 

The release three weeks ago 
Df Apple's critically acclaimed 
System 7 operating system, 
which includes 3D screen 
effects, enhanced screen 
refreshes and a whole host of 
user friendly devices, had many 
computer journalists, users and 
observers once again lording 


Pn«|r«n Uiu^ i 



* Pandits ktvt been predklmq a 
Windows otteletalQr since its wrap' 
fwn* Maw that one has Hnalty 
armed, does H offer the speed 
needed to beat Apple? 

Apple’s virtues at the expense of 
Microsoft's, 

Microsoft is firmly backing 
Weitek's chip. Its Windows group 
manager in the US, Rich Abel 
said: "The inclusion of graphics 
acceleration (unctions ena- 


hances the performance of GUI 
environments such as Windows, 
thus benefiting the user, 
Microsoft is pleased that Weitek 
will offer a user interface con¬ 
troller supporting Windows". 

Microsoft's plan! to further 
enhance the appeal of Windows 
with additions of audio and video 
processing will also be boosted 
by the Weitek chip. One of the 
problems with the system has 
been the fact that loo much has 
been asked from the central pro¬ 
cessor and software. Minimum 
memory requirements for a PC 
running Windows are 640K in 
'real' mode, 2Mb in 'standard 5 , 
and a whopping 4Mb in 
'enhanced''. This latter mode is 
considered to be the nearest 
equivalent to the Macs O/S 
which can be run from a machine 
with 2Mb of memory. 


Rais saved by PC program 


A computer program has been 
developed which could help save 
the fives of laboratory animals in 
school experiments. 

Instead of cutting small animal; 
in half, students can simulate 
vivisection an their computers, The 
PC program: was developed by Dr 
David Dsttfiurst at Leeds 
Polytechnic, who had been giw$ti a 
£10,000 grant from the National 
Anti’VMsecticin Society, 

Dewhurrt commented: "This 


won't stop vivisection overnight, bat 
(t is a significant step forward. 
Students can see on screen the 
simulated effects of teste on 
tissues when drugs are addod. 
Traditionally, these are types of 
Tissue which have been removed 
from animals killed humanely." 

Mb pantad nut that the software 
is also Cert effective. One 
laboratory rat costs £10. but the 
program, which costs £100, can be 
used again and again. ■ 



At a perfect price? 



* SdSwffate fir feeds ore even now 
developing ways to save animats 
from experiments curing tMiywfwi, 


WordPerfect carp is offering 
a free site licence to users of 
version 5.1 of its word pro¬ 
cessor software. 

The offer begins on 1 June 
and lasts tor 30 days after the, 
as yet unconfirmed, release date 
of WordPerfect tor Windows. 

A spokeswoman tor 
WordPerfect told Expres s; "We 
dont have a date tor the 
Windows launch as yet- All l can 
tell you is that it will occur in the 
third quarter ol tois year. That is 


sometime between June and 
September". 

A free site licence means that 
users of WordPerfect 51 can 
run both DOS and Windows- 
based systems on their PCs and 
still receive system- support, it 
does not mean that they get a 
free copy of WordPerfect for 
Windows, 

A dated proof ot purchase is 
required in order qualify tor the 
otter. For more information call 
0932 850850. 


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THIS WEEK 


Alignment fault detected on co-processor socket 

AMSTRAD PC 3386: 
CHIP COULD BLOW 


Owners of Amstrad's new PC 
3386 model using maths co¬ 
processors risk blowing up 
components because of an 
installation fault on the co¬ 
processor sockets. 

Amstrad last wEek confirmed 
that a number of 3386 models 
have been made with the copro¬ 
cessor socket 90 degrees out of 
line. Users adding a co-proces¬ 
sor, who are unaware of the 
problem, risk blowing the chip, 

Stephen O'Brien, a member of 
the technical support team at 
leading Amstrad distributor 
Micro Peripherals, said: u l know 
there's a problem with the 
daughter board on to which the 
micro processor fits. When the 


customer installs the co-proces¬ 
sor in the normal way the chip 
bows. I don't know whether this 
was a batching problem or 
whether it's unrversal. I've had 
three calls train customers with 
problems and there hawe been 
five calls into the department." 

Amslrad's technical support 
department confirmed that modi¬ 
fication was a potential danger: 
If you're going to fit a maths co¬ 
processor you need to check the 
posrbon of the socket. In some 
cases it is 90 degrees out of 
alignment. That means if yau 
plug a chip in then you'll blow it 
to Kingdom Come, You'll have to 
get an engineer to check it out, 

"The problem occurs on a 


number of machines where the 
manufacturer put the socket in 
round the wrong way. It you plug 
the coprocessor into one oi 
these then it will blow. 1 ' 

An Amstrad spokesman said 
the fault should not cause alarm.; 
"There's no need to get an engi¬ 
neer out, you just have to look at 
the manual The layout of the 
socket is misleading because it 
can go in two ways. If you put it 
in the right way then it's OK. tf 
you put it in the wrong way then 
then it's not. 

It is misleading and we are 
altering it now. This only occurs 
on a small initial batch, but if any¬ 
one has a problem we will handle 
it without question." 



*3586: t wrters miry need 1 betp with 
then ro-prwersws km Amstrad. 




animation 


■ Nknwrry's ffkkerFixar, a graph¬ 
ics enhancer board designed to 
eliminate ffkkef problems an Amigo 
?00(h using high resolution and 
VGA monitors, has been draStkaHy 
at in prise Groin 075 fa 1125. 

ffnket rfixer removes the seen 
Jmes wfpjVfr appear when a monitor is 
vted in interim made, and, as iTj 
name suggests if removes the 
ffidtr width occurs in htterkced 
mode. The firm claims the change is 
due fa *a high volume of sales*. 
Cab 081-541 5466. 


Teaml7 programming members 
have been spending their time 
"making same very Strange (MiSM 
into microphone*'. 

The reason why is that they want 
to get the right 'slurpy-squlshy' 
sounds tor the ioon-in-lw-reloased 
Alien Breed, Not only are weird 
sounds coming from the crew, so 
are Claim? thJt the game, due tor 
release in three to four weeks time, 
is the first true 1 Mb game tor the 
Amiga'. There are one and two 
player options, a tennis sub-game. 
site weapons, acid pools., speech, 
and of course the sound effects. 
When finally released the game 
will cost £9.95, For more 
mfomatton contact 0974 368151. 


• This game. Alien Breed (inset 1 dorm to have fast the right skrpy 
sgukhy' effects around. Weft the gpm doesn't, fief fihe programmers 
do, they efic have a greet deed more to say about ft.... 


Portable printing from Brother 





4 t f i i I 



• The Brother NH0G, Portable fnki$t printing 
could he yarns, bat H J s so new not even Brother 
knows where ad the fonts come from! 


Brother is launching its first ink-jet print¬ 
ers; the HJ-77G, and portable HJ-lOQ. 

The HJ-770 is a 136 column machine 
which runs at ISO character per second 
tops) and can take sheets of A3 paper in 
landscape mode. 

There are four font styles bundled with it: 
Roman, San Seriff, Broughan [Brother's own 
font, which is similar to Courier}, and Letter 
Gothic. Downloaded fonts can also be stored 
in an optional 128K battery-backed RAM 
card. Three emulations are available as stan¬ 
dard, ProRrinter, XL-24e, and Epson 
LQ1050 Brother's own DeskJet printer is 
also supported. 


Thg portable H>1Q0 is the same size as a 
piece of A4 paper, and is powered by 
rechargeable Nicad batteries. Brother claims 
that the batteries will last for 40 pages of 
printed text before they need recharging. 

There is also an optional A/C adaptor 
available. There are no bundled fonts with 
this printer, or at least none that Brother is 
aware of. According to a spokesman for the 
company: “These printers are so new, that 
we haven't even seen them''. 

The HJ-770 is priced at £880 and the 
portable HJ-lOO costs £362. 

For more'information call Brother on 061- 
3306531. 


NEWS 


Boot out 
that virus 

A virus killer has been 
launched which, according to 
its producer, can protect the 
most vulnerable part of your 
PC, the boot sector, 

PC-rilftn from Affiliate 
Software attaches to the parallel 
port, arid is transparent to the 
system, It lurks in the boot sec¬ 
tor to wait for any rogue 
programs, and duly warns of any 
disks which are infected, before 
a virus can be installed. 

“In tests, it's been totally suc¬ 
cessful against all-known 
viruses," claimed managing 
director Chris Arden, *We expect 
a similar success rate for detect¬ 
ing future viral threats." 

FC-ciln costs £149. For 
more information call 0273 
602622. 

Sutler serves 
up ST program 

ST owners are to be offered 
a 'butler' program packed 
with useful utilities, 

Kuma's Mortimer can be 
accessed from within all 
manner of programs such as 
word processor*, databases 
and programming languages. 

It features a text editor, 
printer spooler, virus detec¬ 
tor and keyboard macro- 
maker. There are also a 
bevvy of different tittle tricks 
such as a magnifier, quick 
mouse, clock, calculator and 
ASCII list. 

Mortimer, originally writ¬ 
ten by German company 
Omikron, costs £32.90. For 
more information call 0734 
344335. ■ 

French do an 
inside job 

A French travel agency has 
run Into trouble after using 
convicts as cut-priced labour 
in the operation of its com¬ 
puters. 

Wagon Lite had subcon- 
tracted computerised booking 
accounts to a penitentiary in 
Bapaume, Northern France. But 
the plan to use cheap labour 
backfired as company chiefs 
realised that the files contained 
toe exact limes when thousands 
of families would be taking their 
holidays. 

Fearing that convicts would 
contact pals on the outside, and 
arrange burglaries, Wagon Lits 
hastily cancelled the contract 
and brought m more reliable 
employees. 


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THIS WEEK 


NEWS 


NIBBLES 


Olivetti price cuts 

dwattl it in cut the prices of its 
range of PCS range of PCs by up 
to 19 6 per cent. 

A 20Mb PCS2B6 now costs 
£997 as opposed to £ 1,232. The 
40Mb version now costs £1,115, 
prtwwisly the price was £1,350, 
However, when the recent rises 
in the VAT rate are taken into 
consideration, this second price 
cut disappears. As do the cuts 
on the PCC53B6SX {20Mb is a 
10,72 per cent, the 40Mb is 10 
per cent), the PCS86 |Z0Mt 
version Tails' by 5,8 per cent 

Call Olivetti an 090® 690790. 

Speedy fox Pop 

Fox Software is claiming that its 
new database management 
system FoxPro 2 is 
'revolutionary'- ft justifies this by 
claiming that the system 
provides data access speeds 
which are; ‘hundreds of times 
faster than ever before'. 

Apparently 1 FoxPro 1 is 
capable of manipulating 
gigabytes of data. It runs on PCs 
from the AT up te the latest 496 
computers. A single user licence 
for the system costs £699. 

Sam old story 

Team Sam, the company which 
was once inc arnated as Miles 
Gordon Technology [JDGT) until it 
went bust, has announced three 
new products for the Sam 
Coupe. They are all muse 
Oriented; the MIDI Sequencer 
costs £46.94; Sound Sampler 
includes a microphone, software, 
and manual, for £58; and Music 
Master drives the Coupe's own 
synthesiser via the QWERTY 
keyboard, price not released. 

Call 0792 700 300. 

Standy Horry 

Logitech is to bring out Scanman 
model 32 for the PC, This 
monochrome hand scanner can 
come as a stand alone piece of 
kit or bundled with Cathword, its 
optical character recognition 
lOCRl software. Not only does 
the Seaman run under DOS, it 
is also configurable for Windows, 

For now it is only available in 
the US at £299 for the scanner, 
059 for the scanner and OCR 
software. 


Colourful chips 

The world's first computer chip 
capable of controlling colour 
liquid crystal displays {LCDs] lias 
been announced in Japan. The 
rather unercibngly named 
NbcroRei642tiN chip, is able to 
manipulate up to 4.096 colours 
on screen simultaneously, 


Computing development could switch from West to East 

UK PAYS TO JOIN 

JAPANESE IN Al 


Japan is looking to the UK for 
help with its project to 
develop the next, or fifth, 
generation in computing 
technology, 

Japan's Institute for the New 
Generation of Computer 
Technology (ICOT) plans to 
develop mainframe, and conse¬ 
quently personal,, computers 

which rely Dn Artificial* 

Intelligence (All, parallel process¬ 
ing and inference technology 
fknown popularly as 'fuzzy' 

logic), it has approached Bristol 
University and Imperial College, 
London for assistance. 

EUROPEAN CONSTRAINT 

However, the notion of two 
major UK universities joining 
forces with the Japanese, at a 
time when Europe is attempting 
to forge itself into a major world 
trading power, is likely to draw 
constrained, or even negative 
reaction from across the chan¬ 
nel. US reaction is also likely to 


be muted. If the Japanese are 
successful in their develop¬ 
ments, the entire focus of 
computing development could 
switch from West to East. 

Both Bristol University and 
Imperial College seem to be 
highly sensitive to these aspects 
judging from their responses. 

In a prepared statement, Prof 
David H 0 Warren of Bristol's 
Computer Science department 
said; “ICOT has proposed 
installing two of its RSI sequen 
tial inference machines at the 
Uri varsity of Bristol. These will 
be attached by high speed link 
to the MuH>P$l parallel inference 
machine at ICOT in Tokyo. 

"'Discussions are proceeding 
with the Department of Trade 
and Industry (DTI) to support the 
UK side of the collaboration. 
Professor Keith Clarke’s group 
at Imperial College London may 
also be involved, and share the 
link to ICOT's RSI". 

As we went to press. 


Professor KeiUh Clarke had not 
yet replied to our phone calls. 

Al is an area in which Bristol 
University has an excellent track 
record - for example with the 
snooker playing robot featured 
on the BBC's QED program. The 
Japanese have therefore pro¬ 
posed an agreement for Bristol 
University to develop an Afbased 
programming language on its 
behalf. 

The ICOT project was nsti- 
gated in the summer of 1932 by 
the Ministry of International 
Trade and Industry (MITIJ in 
Tokyo, and is now in its penulti¬ 
mate year 

HARD CASH IS WAY IN 

Although collaboration from out¬ 
side Japan is welcomed by COT, 
the way m has to be bought with 
hard cash. Consequently, Bristol 
University is now having to seek 
funding from the DTI. Jim 
Davison at the DTI s Technology 
and Research department told 


us: “I try to keep up with ICOT, 
hut I don't know a great deal 
about Imperial or Bristol, If it is 
question of a university contact¬ 
ing the DTI for funding, I cannot 
comment*. 

SIXTH GENERATION 

The implications for UK comput¬ 
ing, which saw rts last remaining 
mainframe manufacturer, ICL, 
fall into Japanese control earlier 
this year, extend beyond the end 
of the ICOT project. As Express 
reported in its 16 February 
issue, a £770 million, sixth gen¬ 
eration project is due to begin in- 
Japan in 1992. 

The sixth generation protect is 
to concentrate on neural net¬ 
works - a farm of computing 
which derives directly from the 
kind of Al work which is to he 
earned out in Bristol. With com¬ 
puters already installed in 
Bristol, the UK will be in an ideal 
position to take a leading role in 
this development. 


Claris helps Macs to the future 

Claris Is launching three 


System 7 compatible soft¬ 
ware bundles for the Mac, 

The Resolve spreadsheet is 
said by the company to be 'the 
flagship of the Claris System 7 
family'. It enables users to pro¬ 
duce - full colour ^ graphic 
representations of their number 
juggling. These include 3D, wire¬ 
frame, and contour charts and 
scripting, or macro, facilities to 
automate repetitrve tasks. 


Mac Write Pro, is the next 
launch. This is an upgrade of 
Claris' word processing system 
familiar to Mac users. Upgrades 
include table creation and manip¬ 
ulation. paragraph and character 
style sheets, multiple headers 
and footers, and a 31 colours. 
Graphic formats such as TIFF., 
PlCTZ, and ERSF are supported. 

MacProject 11, a project 
management tool, is the last of 
the launches. It provides users 


with the ability to produce sched¬ 
ules, project graphs, arid tables. 

Material from all of these pro¬ 
grams can be ported from Dne 
to another without loss of for¬ 
matting, 

Both systems make use of 
System 7’s functions such as 
‘publish and subscribe’, and 
Bubble Help, 

Resolve costs £323, 
MacMrte Pro is £205, and 
Mac-Project fi is £464, 


Noteable system 

NCR has entered the portable PC market with a 
5.61b. 386SX notebook PC. 

The NCR 3120 is 1.7 inches thick, 8-3 inches 
W'de and 11.6 inches wide, about the size ot a 
ream of A4 paper. It includes 9 30 o* 60Mb hard 
drive as standard, complemented by a 3.54nch, 
1.44Mb floppy drive. 

The screen is a monochrome, back-lit, VGA liq¬ 
uid crystal display, Expansion is via serial, parallel, 
mouse and video ports, as well as an external bus 
connector, 1Mb of RAM comes as standard and 
can be expanded to 5Mb. An optional internal 
fax/madem is also on the cards. This allows faxes 
to be sent via V27 protocol at 4,800 baud and 
V29 at 9,600 baud, The entry level machine with 
1Mb RAM, 30Mb hard drive, single floppy, and VGA 
monitor costs£3,724.75. 





* NCR*$ paperwek/ki pw/dMs PC avodobk w# vptimot 
wtenurf kx/rndm. Cal HCR on 071 725 8246 



Space age 
printing 

Mannesman Tally's latest 
portable printer, the MT735, 
has been short-listed to fly 
aboard the space shuttle 
Columbia. The printer has 
already been tested in a 
weightless environment. 

The MT735 is a six pages 
per minute machine, it measures 
29cm x 22cm x 6cm, and 
weighs 3,8Kg Power is from 
rechargeable batteries. It also 
has a cut-sheet feeder which can 
take 80 sheets of AA. Print reso¬ 
lution is 300 x 300 dots per 
inch. It cost £1,760.15. Call 
0734 788711. 




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POOLSMASTER 

The Football Pools Predictor 

A LICENCE tO PRINT MONEY L Mr FC Hammond a I ESS** 

‘WE HAVE WON MANX THOUSANDS." Mr P E FkHwdB ol Dar&M 

• JUS! a couple of the many unsolicited testimonial! aboul 
this truly amazing Football Pools Fredictor Programme 
whch has consistentty astounded US With Its accuracy. 
Check act its features 

• Predicts homes. away& and draws. 

• No Tiddly typing in of team names: urtnque indexing system 
for quack entry ol lixturas and results fast type In the rertuHs 
each week Irom your usual newspaper and the pro¬ 
gramme updates Usert 

• u&es scientific formula which « the result ol many year? 
study qf the football pools to give a strike rate which is 
consistently higher tihen the laws of average. 

• Also has a SEQUENCE PREDICTOR option in addition 10 
farm Predictions which analyses coupon numbe* 
Sequences. This option has asturidted us in the past and 
continues to do so. 

• Can be used far league end cup matches. Updates season 
after season No need lb buy a new copy every season. 

• Send lor FCOLSMASTER today and increase your 
chances of lhat JACKPOT. Comas complete with manual 
and imcwmatrve Pools Guide. 

DISKS AND TAPES £24.95 


★ ★ SPECIAL OFFER *★ 

SPECIAL COMPENDIUM DISKS/TAPES 
PQQLSM ASTEFt/COU RSE MASTER £44.95. 
BUY ANY THREE PROGRAMMES AND 
RECEIVE PHOFIT FROM YOUR 
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THE GRAPHOLOGIST 

HANDWRITING ANALYSIS PROGRAMME 
"UNCANNILY ACCURATE" * 8DM PLUS MAGAZINE 

• Analyse YOUR handwriting, or your partners, faends elc. 
What are they REALLY like! to Uf handwriting always rev-eats 
your Ir ju nature, state of health etc. 

• This programme is a must for anyone Interested in hand- 
wnling analysis, both expert and beginner alike 

• The programme wilt provide an analysis or a subject's 
handwriting ranging IrOm a simple signature analysis fa a full 
15 page complete charade* report. Ideal for prospective 
employers. ejqtemencBd graphologists or anyone inlaiested in 
this fascinating art 

• All you need fa a sampte of the Subjects handwriting and 
fallow the Simple on screen instructions Upon completion 
you are (eh whji an in dbplh report detailing all aspects bl 
your Subjects Character Irom career ambition, state of health- 
through fa sexual preferences ard megafamarka’ 

• You may even edit this report using your word processor 
lor re&re&eniatinn In yogr subject 1 client, 

THE GRAPHOLOGIST it a must tor serious business use Or 
Simply have loads of fan enlertaining your friends whifel 
teaming the Finer aspects cl this fascinating subject 

• COMPLETE WITH MANUAL OF GRAPHOLOGY 

Price £45.95 Inc, VAT and P&F 


COMPETITION RULES 

Every purchase matte qualifies you fa enter our 
competition draw. The fatal value ol your purchases will 
determine the prize won. 

There will be one i$i prize only per draw 
Spend up fa £20.00 -1 st prize * a Star LC printer. 
Spend up fa E4Q.-Q0 - 1 st prize = Amslrad PCI 512 SDMM 
Spend over £40.00 - is! prize - Amstrad PC 1540 SD colour. 
5 runners up will each wm lull sel of Inlrasel software as 
above. Intrasei's decision final on all matters. 

Send SAE far list of winners. 

Draw dates 28-9/91. 


COURSEMASTER 

THE COMPUTER HO RSE RACING TIPSTER 
PROGRAMME 

■ BEAT THE BOOKIE FOR A CHANGE I' 

• RATES ANY RACE U£*rtg racecard in any dally paper or 
racing paper - BOTH FLAT AND JUMPS! 

• Gives dear forecast d best selection PLUS second and 
Ihrfd far Tricasls etc. and even recommends type ol bel 

« Works but ycur WINNINGS on most popular types of but 
ie Singles, doubles, patent. Yankee. 

CANADIAN, ate. 

• MAINTAINS A BANK ACCOUNT - Bet like a 
PROFESSIONAL! 

• PLUS the amazing COURSEMASTER SYSTEM BET. 
This superb easy fa use betting system regularly provides 
cur customers With MAJOR WINS far small Stakes - try it 
and amaze yourself. Will even PRINT OUT YOUR BET¬ 
TING SLIP fpr you If you have a printer! 

• COMPLETE WITH 2D PAGE BETTING GUIDE AND 
MANUAL 

DISKS AND TAPES £24 .95 


PERM-MASTER 

If you enjoy doing (he Poets and regularly use parms as we 
at INTRASET LTD, recommend (hen checking your coupon 
can be a nightmare. Have you won Or haven't you? Porm- 
Masler ends the agony by checking your perm far you. 
Simply tell it which ol your coupon numbers are {paws and il 
will do Ihe rest, telling you how many winning line? you have 
Perm-M.TSfar comes Complete with several Ol the top perms 
already built m, but il your favourite perm is nol (here Iben 
simpty create ycur own using Ihe unique perm editor. 

• Feet and simple 10 use 

• Unique PERM EDITOR 

• Create yOur Own perm using ihe inbuilt perm calculator, 
test your own iheortes etc. 

• Fbr mast block and single line perms 

Price £19.95 


SPOT-THE-BALL 

Foe all SPOT-TH E-BALL fans this programme ts a musl, no 
more teasum© counting Qi Y'S or messy rubber stamps. Use 
your compule/ la do yOur SPOT-THE-BALL coupon. 

Just tell your computer where you think the ball ia using the' 
screen template supplied 

Will print out up fa 540 micro-fine crosses in your Chosen 
shape or simply tell it to choose at random. 

Learns as it goaa - tell it where the ball IS every week and 
build up a database of results fa uSa in SPOT-THE-BALL's 
sequence fxettidor optfori. 

Works with any Epson Compatible dot matrix prlnlbr or build 
your own printer driver using the on smart option 
• LET SPOT-THE-BALL fill m YOUR COUPON this week 
SPOT-THE-BALL £17.95 


All programmes avarlabte ter IBM'PC it compatibles all 
Amstrad PCs, Amstrad PCWs. Atari, Amiga, CPC 6*28 
! unless otherwise stated) Perm-Masier also available lor 
Commodoere 126 disk. Ccursemasief and Poolsmastar also 
available fibr air Amslrad CPC's, all SfteCtfums and C64 £ T£S 


P.C. PATIENCE 

• Four addictive P.C. card games lo test ycur skill and luck 

• P.C. PAIRS, THE INTRASET CASINO, P.C. GOLF & 
CHESS PATIENCE 

• Ideal rglaxatfan white! the boss is not looking, but rtonY 
blame lis if you gel falally addicted, (But we know you 
WHF) 

P.C. PATIENCE £14.95 (IBM/pc compals enty wish 256K + 
CGA monitor required) 

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Spend over £80 -and spread the cost at no s*tra 
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order by 4 and send us tour cheques each with your 
name and address and cheque guarantee card num^ 
bar,,,Date Ihe first cheque with loday’s date and post¬ 
date each of ihe other cheques by one month i.e 
1/5/91, 1/6/91 etc We will then hold each cheque 
until it is due, Sorry not available on hardware items 


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POWER OPTIONS 


GVP SERIES 2 

GVP A500 IMPACT SERIES 2 HARD DRIVE 

EXPANDABLE TO & MEGABYTES OF RAM USING SIMMS 

42Mb drive .................£479.95 

52Mb drive ............ ..£529.95 


GVP SERIES 2 1500/2000 8Mb MEMORY CARDS 

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with 4Mb RAM ONLY... ..... 

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GVP 68030 ACCELERATORS 

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into 32 bit ROM and 1 -8Mb of TRUE 32 bit wide RAM 

PRICES START AT £384.95 FOR 25MH2 BASE BOARD. CALL FOR MORE 
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A590 

20Mb 

Western Digital £319,95 

A59Q 

40Mb 

Seagate 

£474.95 

A590 

52Mb 

Quantum 

£499.95 

A590 

83Mb 

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£573.95 

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105Mb 

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£649.95 

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£019.95 

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210Mb 

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£929.95 

A599 

211Mb 

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£949.95 


Add £60-00 for 2Mb RAM if purchased 
wilh any of the above drives. 


BARE SCSI/XT DRIVES 

W.Digilal 65ms 20Mb £69.95 

Seagate 28ms 48Mb £228,95 

Seagate 20ms 83Mb £333.95 

Seagate 15ms 111Mb £506.95 

Seagate 15m§ 142Mb £559,95 

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Quantum l7/9ms 52Mb &*h cash* £239.95 
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CD goings on 

PRODUCT^ CD-ROM Drive 

NAME: Toshiba XM-3301B 



* Driving forces 


behind the /Hoc and PC or merely CD entries 
fata the world of data storage? 

The Mac and the PC meet and agree at 
long last. This drive, available in the UK 
via Highland Computers, gomes from 
Toshiba. The company claims that the 
drive has arc average access time of 325 
milkseoonds (ms). Users are not limited 
to one size of Compact Disc either, both 
12 cm and 8cm versions are catered for. 
They also Support both audio and data 
transmission. 

The doves come in internal, external, 
and external fourdnve tower form and 
ate compatible with FC-AT, PS/2, Mac, 
and Toshiba laptops. 


Price: This depends on which 

configuration you 
require. Toshiba were 
'unable' to give us an 
entry level or top-end 
price. However, we will 
have this information 
for yon in next week's 
issue. 


Availability: Now 

Target users : According to Toshiba: 
“Sophisticated 
Mac and PC users who 
need high speed 
access to data on tap", 
Contact 0444 235000 

Perceived competition: Hitachi 


Affordable 

CD-ROM 

PRODUCT: CD-ROM Drive 
NAME: Philips CDD461 



* fie cheapest CD- 

ROM in town is Philips 1 new CD 0461 


At last an affordable CD-ROM drive for Ihe 
PC. The CDD461 from Philips, which is 
collaborating with Sony on CD-I 
development at the moment, is 
compatible with PC/XTs, and PS/2 
computers. One of the major factors 
about this drive is that it features audio 
out with front panel controls ■ it even has 
the tray loading system familiar to owners 
ot stereo CD players, 

A range of applications are already 
available for the drives, including Philips' 


THIS WEEK 


NEW 


WHAT'S NEW 

The quick reference guide to all the newest of the new in computing this week. 



* it looks expensive now, toff fhi machke's deseeadeoH inuidbe affordable fry He end of next year. So whet does this powerhouse offer? 


PRODUCT: 

NAME: 


RISC portable 
workstation 
Sony NWS-3260 


Sony has just announced the launch of 
this SKg portable RISC workstation. The 
company claims: “Quite simply there has 
never been such high resoiuhon and 
power in a portable computer before." 
With the specifications of this laDtopthe 
claim is difficult to doubt 

It delivers 17 million instructions per 
second (mips), with 1,8 million floating 
point operations per second (MFLQPSL 


UNIX 4.3, X-Wmdows 11 and Sony's 
NewsDesk user interface are 
incorporated into the system in their 
complete formats. 

The central processing unit (CPU) is 
MIPS Computer System's R3000- This is 
complemented by the R 3010 floating 
point accelerator, 

16Mb of main memory come as 
standard, along with a 406Mb internal 
hard disk, and a 1.44Mb floppy drive. 
The monitor is an 11 inch monochrome 
liquid crystal display (LCD). Like Sony's 
NWS-3865 (see Che Nibbles column on 


page SI the NW-326G comes with a built- 
in Ethernet interface to accompany its 
parallel, serial and SCSI ports. 


PRICE: 

AVAILABILITY: 
TARGET USERS 


£10,563.25 
Now 

Software 
engineers, and 
anyone who can 
afford this high level 
of computing. 

CONTACT: Sony Microsystems 

on 0784 467228 

PERCEIVED COMPETITION: None 


European Business Guide. It can be 
controlled as an MS-DOS extension which 
makes installation an easy process. 

Price: 1468. 32 

Availability: Now 
Target users: In flie wards of a 

Philips spoke sperson 
who talked to Express 
this week: "Anyone who 
wants a CD-ROM player at 
a price they can afford". 

Contact Philips on 0306 75777 

Perceived competition: Hitachi and 
Tush ba (although neither can provide a 
drive at this price) ■ 


Rob-Manoger 

PRODUCT: Stats and monitoring 
software 
NAME: Informer 

Informer is designed to he pro-active in 
tracking possible trouble spots on UNIX- 
based systems. The software comes with 
predefined areas at which to look, 
however these can be further configured 
by (he usei. 

The software monitors a system and 
produces graphical illustrations of the 
way5 in which single users, or groups of 


users, are making use of it. This allows 
managers to produce invoices end 
reports for each department 
A 'cyber' aspect of the software is a 
■module’ called Robot which occasionally 
logs on to the system as a pseudo-user, 
tt (hen carries out a number of the tasks 
which a typical' user would do and is then 
able to measure screen response tome, 
and relay the data back to the manager. 

Price: £3,519.12 

Availability: Now 
Target users: UNIX system 
managers 

Contact: Pittman Professional 

Systems 0732 63B81 

Perceived competition: None 


Lease, lease me 

PRODUCT: Lease line modem 
NAME: Nokia N1920 

This ore is strictly for the business user, 
but we thought that it would be of passing 
interest to the conns aficionados 
amongst you. 

The Nokia can handle a massrve data 
transmission rate of 19,200 bits per 
second tbps), as well as a wide range of 
lower rates including 16,800. It is 
designed as a four-wire, point to point, 


lease line piece of hardware. It supports 
V33, V29 and V27 bis standards, 

A lease line modem rs one designed to 
be used for private communications 
rather than over the public telephone lines 
- in-house data communications for 


businesses for example. 



* Do you need secure in-house 
(cmmankctions? Nokia r r lease-hoe modem 
has of! the speed and security you're after 


Price: This depends on your 

specific needs and the 
size of the system you are 
setting up. So give Nokia 
a call 

Availability: Now 
Target users: Businesses, and users 
who require rapid data 
cwnruumcalwn over 
private lines. 

Contact: Nokia on 081-569 7700 

Perceived competition: Nokia were not 
prepared to say. 


1 June 199) ■ New Computer Express * 11 


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Hard Drives!!! 

Our drives feature the same ICD case-external SCSI 
ID changer, external SCSI port, and DMA through 
port. But we now feature Plus Impulse Drives (A 
Quantum company) with a 2 year warranty, and a 
64 K cache on drive. All our drives have clocks! 

ICD w/Plus lOSMeg 11ms £529 

lCDw/Plus 52Meg 11ms £439 

ICO w r /Plus 40Meg 12 ms £425 

Bare Plus Impulse 40Meg 12ms £255 

Bare Plus Impulse. 52Meg 11ms £269 

Bare Plus Impulse 105Meg 11ms £349 

SYQUEST SQ-555 based drive; 

The famous ZCS-44 removable £639 

extra cartridge £86 

a three-pack £231 

hare SQ-555 SCSI I w/cart) £431 

Combo drives- add another bare. 

The Megafile 44 is a SYQUEST. 

Ours comes with ICD host l software. 

Drives come set for IS, UK or other power. 
They come with PD software. 


ZRAM upgrades 


520 to 2.5mb 

£150 

Mega 2 to 4mb 

£150 

Others - 2,5mb 

£159 

Others - 4mb 

£235 

STB SIMMs 

£45 

TT SIMMs 

£47 


New Gadgets (by Small)!!! 
68030 SST 

Go to TT speed on your ST with a 63030 chip. Then you can 
add Fast RAM (up to 8 MB), and a coprocessor. 


FREE POST: 

ICD Cleanup £32 

Quick ST 2,22 £19 

Turbo ST £28 

Neodesk v.3 £34 

U1S 3 £18 

Page St ream £104 

Fonts £20 

Calamus £195 

Font Editor £66 

Outline £172 


Bare Board (needs A, B, or Cl 

£435 

Option 'A 1 - 16mhz 68930 

£145 

Option B - 16mhz 68030, 4 1Mb SIMMs 

£335 

Option 'C- 33mhz 68930, 68882 t 4 SIMMs 

£579 

Option 'D 1 -4 1Mb SIMMs 

£189 

Shipped with a 68030 version of TOS. 



MegaTalk 

A fast communications board for Mega STs. .Adds two serial 
ports (up to 990,900 baud!!!) and a true SCSI port for 
Spectres (v. 3 or higher) this means,,, 

A ppleTalk! ~ . 

Ap ple MIDI! _[ Q l 

MAC hard drives! 

In Atari mode you get 3 serials (BIOS drivers included) 

Spectre v. 3.1 £204 


We guarantee all 
hardware - we even 
pay return shipping 


ICD Adspeed St 8/16 mhz £210 
with 64k cache 

Dealers: we offer trade prices on some items 


Zleount Computers & Service 

8102 Thoreau Drive 
Bethesda, MD 20817-3160 USA 




All prices Include VAT. 

Post: £12< £200: £8< £500: free>^£500 
Voice: 0101 + (301) 229-2407 
Fax: 0101 + (202) 333-1756 


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AMIGA 


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UTILITIES 


200 Q-Ga^e 0 diabase 
Rrugr^m 
I £06 Gie*k Accounts 
209 Amiga Database 
212 Eterijrocad Demo 
215 Clip Art 

219 Wordwrife WondprTOessai' 
2&6 Journal - for your accounts 
283 C-Light Ray Tracking 
230 Sank Master - For all your 
bank records 
250 Wordprocesaor 
295 Business Card - Make 
yours now 

248 Analyticalc Spreadsheet 
Graphics - Son them all 
out 


5M 6BOO Assembler 

560’ Red Sector Decno Maker 

533 tSOUtiHtieS 

6?1 TV Graphics - *2 disks 

516 Complete C Manual * 3 
disks 

520 DBW 3D Rendering 
581 B Track Sound Tracker 
518 North CCompiler VI.a 
502,. Fonts S Ram Manager 

51 7 Kickstart 2 

556 C Manual 1, 2 & 3 
592 Ultimate Virus Killer ■ Best 
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632 Iraq Demo 
691 WrzzCa! 

096 Debbie Jordan Slideshow 
BOi Razor 1911 - Best Demo 
045 Kathy Lloyd Slideshow 
074 System Violation 
BEJ7 Blood Sport 


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Blizia^ 

Paranoid 

Learn Play 1 A 2 tor chkiren 

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personal replies, even with an SAE and 
remember, only SOME letters win a fiver! 



Time Warp 


It seems that a large number of 
Express readers are stuck in a 
temporal loop! While I agree that's 
It's not nice to see your machine 
specific column dropped* 
changed-' cut down, it is a lact of 
life that we go forward developing 
new technology. 

How much more can. be said 
about the BBC B. Spectrum or 
whatever a-bil machine? After all 
they ruled the roost tor many 
years. 16 and 32-bil machines are 
now the thing. 

Perhaps there's a new market 
lor a magazine like Classic Cars 
for old computer owners? 

M Jones Skelmerdate Lancs 


PRACTICAL CLASSICS? Seems to mo 
the main problem with owning some of 
the older machines is knowing when to 
call it a day. But with all the emulators 
kicking around these days on the 16-bits 
it's not as it you can't use all that old 


software any longer is it? I don't know 
about the idea ot a specialist magazine 
though. Anything upto 80 per cent and 
beyond at any mag's revenue comes 
from advertising - so I doubt whether 
there's enough out there to support one. 

Cheaper a«ess 

Why dent you rig up a deal with a 
free bulletin board instead of 
expecting us to correspond via on- 
line services that cost us money to 
subscribe in the first place, 

Paul Banks, Cfieimsford Essex 

A GOOD point and one we looked into 
immediately. WeVe now got an area on 
Aspects where you can leave mail. So, 
get in touch on 061 792 0260 


lack tips 


One of the columnists in the June 
issue of Alsri ST User appears to 


be clin leal ly insa ne: well what did 
you expect - Ed) He advises In the 
beginners column for new users of 
$T$» that It is okay to leave a 
floppy disk on top of a TV for a 
week, under a telephone* rub il 
with a magnet, subject it to heal 
etc and it will be OK. He claims 
that if the dale is lost it's because 
IN disk is at fault to begin with. 

If this is IN kind of advice that a 
popular mag gives to its new 
readers then they would be belter 
eh not giving It at all 

Ctive Parker PM Bristol 

SOUND TECHIE advice is an essential 
part of any magazine's service to its 
readers. That's why we were glad to 
replace Uncle Tech Tips with Big Keifh, 



Copy rats 


Re: the piracy debate. 

It Is next to impossible to produce 
an uncopyable system. For 
example, cartridges were 
supposed to have stopped pirates 
but, as same of your readers may 
be aware, there is an illegal 
Nlinlendo cert with 60 games on It 
floating around on IN Weak 
markel- 

CGM10M games or software 
might be unassailable at (he 
moment but some bright spark will 
find a way to Nat the system, i 
used 1 to hack games - why?- 
because they were there. It's no 
good fining game hackers or 
th reatening jail that Just makes it 


more exciting. What's needed is 
re-education. The industry could 
find a lot o( excellent programmers 
just sitting at home and IE could be 
beneficial for ibe industry lo talk lo 
pirates. This would give the 
Industry the chance to torn the 
pirates on each othe r. 

Ian Faraday Perm Wolverhampton 

I THINK we should begin to make a 
distinction between pirates and hackers. 

I can see people hacking games for the 
sake of the coding challenge - (his 
seems to be somewhat harmless and 
entirely differed! from people who crack, 
swap and sell the software on. Bui I 
guess in practical terms it's a 
meaningless distinction. Who’s to prove 
the guy who had £1 6,500 worth of 
copied games the other week didn’t 
crack them all himself? 


On-line mail 

Own a modem? Then squirt us a toiler. 
Express has its own area on Aspects 
bulletin board (061792 0260 f where 
you can leave mail and upload 
download files. 

We also have our own conference on 
CIX Why nol give this on-line service a 
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micro. Hang around any College of Further 
Education a! the end of July when they're enrolling the 
nigh! classes. 

Ten minutes before enrollment is due to stop, stroll 
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details and say: "The principal wants to see you In his 


office Immediately- I’ll look after this." When she 
disappears, use the two floppies concealed In your 
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data tiles. 

Once back at home, you can load ihe program and 
dale, throw away all the normal course lists and 
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addresses from all of ibe Underwater Hang-Gilding, 
Astronomy far beginners, travel photography and 
Basket Weaving, course members, you'll have a list ol 
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Next, using tN office PC and laser printer you can 
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stationery and mailshot them all. Let's face it, H 
ordinary people will pay hundreds of pounds year in, 
year out For computer dating, these sorts are the key 
to your personal goldmine. 

rUa/cv fiery Jarvis, Wton Keynes, 


OF COURSE this astonishing lad attraction utility 
shouldn’t be loaded by anyone pasessing She slightest 
modicum of respect for his feltow human beings. It 
could seriously damage your health. 

Here’s a 'toot attractor' I came across a tow years 
ago which I thought you might like to know about. 
You'll need 5 'O' levels or so bul IN only cash outlay 
required is to buy yourself a suit and tie, You then write 
to every high street bank in your immediate locale 
requesting art Interview with the manager. You then visit 
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days or so until you receive a confirmation. You then 
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14 SHOPPING EXPRESS 


Blind androids 

The Android Irorn Rhyl should 
hgve his 'supertar' digital scanning 
cheeked oid- If it was working 
properly ho wouW have noticed 
that the game being played on the 
Atari IS -bit in DARYL along with 
Missile Command was In feet 
Caverns ol Mars 

Chns Roberts Prestatyn CSwyoI 

Dumb androids 

QK„ OK but you know how hard 
English can be lor non-humans. I 
mean when was the last ti me you 
talked lo Tim Smilh 

The. Android Rhyl Cfwyd 

t TALK to Tim Smith every wording day 
and I think I can safely say that Tim 
exhibits all the symptoms of a condition 
known as 'singular genius'. This is 
because only he knows what the hell 
he's talking about but he finds it so 
difficult to explain to himself in terms that 
he can dearly understand that he 
believes he's smarter than he thinks. 

Try filtering that through your mondto 
recursive feedback circuitry meal' drendy 
chummy pal 

Mole hunt 

A fail obvious, innit? Much as Jeff 
Walker’s JAM deserves the 
publicity, plugging it every second 
week in fhe User Group Spotlight 
is a wee bit QTT, no? And I he 
weeks that JAM Isn't mentioned. 
Steve Williams' WACCf gels the 
spotlight. Could If be- anything lo 
do with the long standing 
connection between Messrs. 
Pcmlrel, Welker £ Williams? I 
think wile should be told, 

Stewart C. Russell Glasgow Scotland 

YES I HAD noticed that frequent bias 
myself. III get Andy Edilor to sort him out 
lor you. Any particular blunt instrument 
you’d like employed? 

ra We might do 

Do they mean us ? 

OW Holbom's column MCE X 32 
PAGE Ifk 

“During an Interview published 
in a well known UK monthly Amiga 
msgajine" 

Spotlight column NCEl 32 page 45: 

“JAM was the brainchild of ex- 
Amiga Computing edilor Jeff 
Walker..." 

I checked with Jason H and he 
reckons in the first instance ft was 
creative subbing that translated 
Amiga Computing into “...a well 
known../’ 


When we mention the 
excellent work MCE has done on 
Ihe “Door-to-Door" scam,1 don't 
credit ■ “A well known UK weekly 
computer news magazine" 

Amiga CompufriTg. 

Maectesfiefct Cheshire 

^ Or maybe not 

Hm mra... on newspapers I was 
taught never to mention the 
opposition. These days I think 
(hat's rather petty: it your mag is 
any good people won't suddenly 
defect as soon as they realise 
there's another available. 

Bamatiy Page, Ludbw. Sbnops 

GOOD LORD! What am I doing? That's 
mentions for ST User and Amiga 
Computing, JAM and WACO I and ever 
Mr. Page of Pr&Press all in one issue. 
What more can I &ay other than rush cut 
and buy all their mags right away! 
Honestly. Alternatively you might prefer 
to take ail your hard earned money and 
throw it in Ihe nea/esl canal. 


Dolphin shock 

Why do you feel It necessary lo 
print pholos ol naked dolphins 
frolicking provocatively In hotel 
swimming pools? This is jusf the 
kind of gratuitous pornographic 
imagery which turns ordinary men 
into raging sub-aquatic bestial 1 
rapists. I,for one. am horrified. 

Si Pearson, Manchester 

AN APPALLING lapse 1 must admit- H 
just goes ta show how immune we’ve all 
become to crude images of the trouser 
grouser variety. 1 am at this, very moment 
slapping myself vigorously with wet fish 
as penance 



Mass debate 


The computer world is In severe 
danger of disappearing up Its own 
posterior. And tar once, I am not 
talking about the ST v Amiga 
debate. This time what Is really 
getting on my case Is the Mac v PC 
massteebaie. 

Windows Smasher was your 
headline. Surely not- Why do you 
Ihe media have to play one 
perfectly good machine and O S 
off against another. Windows arte 
System 7 ■ not that I have used the 
taller - appear to be as good as 
each other. 

I have been using a PC for 
some four years now, with 
upgrades, and 1 don't want a 'sexy 
new Mac'. The PC and MS-DOS 
works fine, Windows does the 
business, Snd frankly Ihe Mac and 
the PC are worlds apart. All any 


on# really uses the Mac lor his 
high-end DTP. The PC is used In 
serious business. 

Basically, as a plea: don't 
stad a My Mac Is better than your 
PC'. The Mac has a lot ol catching 
up to do In E u rope, no one I have 
met has seen one, lei alone owns 
one. Frankly It is best felt lo the 
arty, creative types who can gel 
the most from it. 

Sorry this is so unstructured 
bul Ihe more I think about It, ihe 
angrier I gel. 

Mark Foster, Brighton. 

OK HOW ABOUT us starting an 
argument right hero? The best thing 
about PCs is (hat they're infinitely 
upgradeable. Which is just as well really 
sines 90 per cent of Ihem are dinosaurs, 
aetare Windows 3 you needed a degree 
in computer science to use one 
effectively and even now you need a 
386SX with loadsa memory which 9 out 
ol 10 PC owners don't own. 



1 st of many? 


I thought your comment about 
Atari Iasi weak was totally over the 
top. Leader of the Pack was a 
sixties song not a fillies one! 

Ketty Burns, Yon i 


THANKS FOR that attention to detail 
there Kelly. For a moment I thought I 
was going to have lo duck fro rr all Ihe 
flak Ihey're taking up in editorial- 



SWOT was it? 


So why didn't you print all ol Ihe 
Atari SWOT analysis last week 
then - ran out of nerve did we? 

Jot\n Fisher Gtifton Nottingham 


JUST A MISTAKE I'm told. Though I 
reckon we should jusi have run it as a 
Full page in itself - it's not often a tending 
company honestly assesses its 
Strengths, Weaknesses. Opportunities 
and Threats in public. 

Cooking tips 

When are you going lo start 
covering the computers that we 
see In everyday life without 
realising ihet they are computers? 

I looked around my house Iasi 
week and found several. The 
washing machine, microwave, 
oven, central heating, TV and 
Video all have computers in them 
tar sure and I'm sure some ol ihe 
other appliances have little logic 
circuits hiding inside them, 

I'm sure that your review 
pages could benefit from say a 
round up of computerised cookers 
or micro powered microwaves. 


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The firs' of a brand new series of 
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Amstrad PC164G 

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• DESIRED MACHINE: 

NCube mainframe 

Well Hm, this tefla me a great deal 
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'repression 1 existing within your super¬ 
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Unlimited power are mediated through « 
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Basically, you are In deep trouble, 
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DIAGNOSIS: Find yourself a wolf 
paid job - possibly as chief executive of 
Apple Camputers. Meanwhile, lock 
youreetf bp and save money by not 
baling anything. 





Who knows, maybe you could give 
away a sachet of cook-in-sauce on 
the cover 

F. Craddock. Potters Bar. 


ITS A MESS here already without us 
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• Embrace Mac power with the new A-Max II Plus 

• Alternative Image take on Real 3D for ray tracing 

• Shock horror? The best Amiga PD demos at last 


A-MAX 2 PLUS SOON 

It's been along time coming, but 
ReadySofTs 'Mac on a card' emulator. A- 
Max II Plus, is almost here. According to 
UK distributor Entertainment 
International', the card should be 
available some time during June/July at a 
retail price of about £400. 

For those of you who have been on 
Mars for the last few months, A-Max II 
Plus is a plug-in card for the Amiga 2000 
upwards that adds the power ot an Apple 
Macintosh to the Amiga. With its built-in 
AppleTalk connectors, MIDI compatibility 
and support for direct reading and 
writing of Mac-format diskettes with 
standard Amiga drives, A-Max II Plus 
promises la be a one-stop solution for 
anyone needing compatibHily with the 
Mac. You can now connect your Amiga 
fa AppleTalk networks and peripherals 
during Macintosh emulation without the 
need for a separate (and expensive! 
AppleTalk card. Mac MIDI sequencers 
such as Performer, Vision and Cubase 
can be used without having to invest in a 
£200 Mac MIDI interface (everyth ng is 
expensive on the Mac'l, 

You can expect a full review of A- 


Mac II Plus m a future issue of Express. 
You can find gut more in the meantime 
by phoning El on 0268 541212. 

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE 

I recently received a letter from Mr G. 
Baxter of ipsw»ch concerning ICD"s 
recently released ADSpeerl accelerator 
card Mr.G wants to buy the card to 
install inside his 3 Mbyte A.5Q0 but he 
has found information a little thin on the 
ground. Well Mr Baxter, I'd love to tell 
you all about AOSpeed, but Silica 
Systems have still to send me a review 
model (although they have promised to 
send it to me on many occasions). 

Last week 1 got the chance to fiddle 
around with one and I wasn't that 
impressed. Ir my opinion, the increase in 
speed lhat AOSpeed defrvers is just not 
significant enough to justify it's £200 
price tag Personally I'd save up and 
Heat myseJf \o a real processor 
accelerator like those produced by Solid 
State Leisure. For an extra £95 you can 
buy the B5000-16, which is a &8Q2Q- 
based 16MHz card. It comes complete 
with a megabyte of 32‘bit PAM wrth 
provision for a further 3 Mbytes. 


You can expect a full review af the 
85000 in a future issue of Express but m 
the meantime, Solid State are on the 
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MED BUGS BUSTED 

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3J lb. Also available from AmigaNuts is 
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STE PRICE CUT 

You'll have already read about the price 
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an ST, tbank you very much, Well for a 
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and purchase the only 16 bit machine 
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screwed about by the dollsr/pauntf 
exchange rate. But Atari is touting the 
Mega STE as a Mac basher, and when 
you can pick up a Mac Classic, with 
Hard drive and a cDupte of megs of RAM 
for £650, their argument is severely 
weakened. Afnght, so Uie ST software 
IS arguably better than Mac software, 
tout there's a completely different per¬ 
ception of the M’ac as a business 
solution, Atari has got to alter the public 
perception of the ST. Until people start 
talking about the Mac and the ST in the 
same sentence , things won't change. 

SELLING SHAREWARE 

The public domain scene has changed 
beyond all recognition over the last 
year, It used to be the case that there 
were ftee or six public domain I braries, 
dealing with fairly small numbers of pun¬ 
ters and small profit margins. However, 
as PD has taken off. so has the “Men in 
suits* perception of the market, 

This point has been rammed home 
by the arrival of a new shareware com' 
pany called Akore. These guys are 
dealing with massive advertising bud¬ 
gets and probabty, massive profit 
margins. 

The company's catalogue is a very 
professional-looking affair with a cover 
price of £1. It includes a large number 
ol programs previously unseen in this 
country, and where familiar programs 


are included, it's only the decent stuff, 
There are no demos, (he company oper¬ 
ates a charge-free credit card hotline 
and claims to have a very quick turn 
around rate. 

Companies like this will undoubt¬ 
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operations out of business. If too many 
companies have to drop out of the mar¬ 
ket, then people like Akore Shareware 
can start push.ng the poce of their 
disks up, thereby negating the whole 
point of public domain. Akore 
Shareware lives at freepost Akore, 
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INSPECT A SPECTRE 

Spectre GCR is an excellent Mac emula¬ 
tor which runs on all $Ts, It can emulate 
a Mac faster than the Mac runs itself. 
Well the guys at Gadgets have just 
come up with ver sion 3, and the 
improvements are great. 

For a start, they've included a 
turbo SCSI option. This means you can 
push your hard drive to new limits. All 
the old incompatibility problems have 
been dealt with. Disks now eject far 
quicker, the Mac Plus’s numeric keypad 
is supported, and you can now simply 
pull down and print to a laser printer. If 
you use a Mac at work, and would like 
to bring your WP files home, then 
Spectre is an excellent option 

Spectre GCR is available from all 
mam dealers, though I recommend 
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DOS 5*5 LITTLE SECRET 

According to sources dose to the com¬ 
pany, Microsoft's long-awatted DOS 5.0 
is due for release in mid June, Reports 
say that it will toe available through retail 
outlets as an upgrade. Incidenliy this 
particular version of DOS will be the first 
to carry the Microsoft name. Apparently 
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£60,00 although no confirmation was 
given by Microsoft. 

Those system users who run a LAN 
network may be interested to hear of a 
little known feature lurking in the bowels 
of DOS 5,0. Apparently, the new DOS 
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This has been hailed with cheers by LAN 
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new feature. Contact Microsoft on 0734 
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NEW GRAPHICS FOR DOS 

Harvard Graphics 3.0 lor DOS and 
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headlines from stateside outfit, 

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ready until the end of the year, accord¬ 
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plans. 

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3.0 is around September/Dctober. 

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first integrated packages for Windows 
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a Hayes-compatible comimjn»catk>n 
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expected around June/July. 

FALCON UPGRADE? 

Rumours abound that American owners 
of Falcon will be eligible for an upgrade 
to Falcon 3.0, the new and very impres* 
&ive flight simulation from Spectrum 
Hotohyte/Mtrrorspft, on production of 
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GEOWORKS ENSEMBLE 

GeoWorks is expected to announce the 
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PostScript printer drivers and a spelling 
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NEW SERIES! - SPECIALIST SHAREWARE 


This week sees the beginning of a 
series of news/preview H»im that 
looks at shareware and PD for 
specialist usage. This week? Why, 
its DTP time! 

Ask your local shareware ven¬ 
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256 version 1, a VGA paint pro¬ 
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Paint rum from DOS, Okay, it's a 
little clunky compared to GEM or 
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interface and tools work very well 
Perfect for the occasional bitmap 
that needs seme retouching. 
Intriguingly this program requires 
Soper VGA as wen as a mouse. It 
also support* Paradise + and Pro, 
ATI VGA Wonder, and Headland 


Video 7 or 10241 graphic beards. 

Next is Aipftaguote v 2 . 3 , a 
program for estimating DTP and 
typesetting. If* useful for deter¬ 
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products should sell for and great 
for comparing the price differ¬ 
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traditional typesetting. This new 
version contains bug fixes to v£.2 
and can use multipie rates [setup 
hies), it is menu driven, has a 
graphic arts calculator, can offer 
disk or printed estimates, preview, 
online help and complete docu¬ 
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Spring Computer Shopper show roundup 
Two new A3000 add-on releases from Pres 
EasiWriter word processing package unveiled 


SHOW REPORT 

It seemed that much of the crowd at the 
Spring Computer Shoppe* show held at 
Alexandra Palace had mistaken it for an 
All Formats affair, and were still in shock 
after shelling out six quid to get in. 
Thirteen year olds do not want to attend 
seminars on application architecture, or 
study Taiwanese VGA cards, They want 
Atari. They want turtles. They want 
Amiga. They weren't there. 

However, Minerva, Pres, Fourth 
Dimension and the Serial Port were, 
providing almost the oniy relief from 
waM[>wai PCs. Minerva had nothing 
new, but was damg a brisk trade in old 
tow the WRirig games. The fourth 
Dimension was showing many of the 
games talked about in these pages 
iSatooo Cars, Chocks Away Extra 
Missions..,) but not actually selling them 
yet. Its advertising seems to have got 
about four months ahead of the real 
release schedule for these games. 

The Serial Port and QD Enterprises 
shared a stand to plug items like their 
new sound sampler, a new MIDI board 
and the Graphics Enhancer. These 
deserve more space than I've got this 


week, $0 111 leave them, for now. 

DUAL PODULE5 

Pres had taken a sizeable stand, and 
had two new items to be proud of. The 
first, for A3000 owners, sounds rather 
prosaic: a dual nodule box. Normal 
poddies are attached, one at a time, to 
the A3Q0G via the rear connector, and 
protected by a ptsdule box, Racking 
systems and podule housings from 
Watford and Wild Vision allow several 
podules to be connected but with a 
manual switch to select one or another. 
For example, you could add a scanner 
and hard disk card to the Wild 1 Vision 
housing: scan in a sprite and you can't 
save it because the hard disk podule 
has to be switched off. Pres has 
overcome this by clipping an extra 
connection to the podule select circuit 
mside the A300Q. It does the same job 
as inside a 400-series Arc, and allows 
you to use two normal podules at the 
same time. 

The Missing Link was also on show 
and is being marketed as a [very! fast 
link between two Archimedes. It's a tiny 
board that plugs into the Econet board 



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, 3.5D&DD_.£139.1 

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Dish £ bo;«s 2 for t disk 
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diidis + M cap bo* ..„..J2450 
dislu + ad cap bo* ...... JH7.25 

dijiss. * SO cap box.JG2.00 

di.Ots + 2* Sft bftxci...JS6.00 1 
di-sks M * SO boxes, JC139.00 
disks+ 5* fWbroti.4t55.5Q 
Price Inc. VAT £ p£fi . 


F'omo 150 cap 
stackable bin 

,£15.3(1 


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inc. VAT£ p&p- 1 


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Philips CMaa3: 
Mkn Monitor 


20 Sony branded 
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AMIGA 5 


iVrhga SCO. 

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1M 

OS3 

Airtifi 1500. 

.£650 

Xmiia 1500 . mowtor 

Glass of the M'i. . 

.,,...£895 

.£510 

Full Steps. 

£F'i n 

CLaViarta e™* . 

.£65 

'“Me* i>Ci CfcKfc . . 

£.11 

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ACCESSORIES 


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MMMar_........ 

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Printer lead, 
Maksim mouse 
Dust cover...... 




.4275 

11L.5C- 

£12.50 

.49.5C 

.£B 

.£8 

£6.50 

.£23 

...£5.50 


STE Discovery’Kti™ .£2t& 
Family Curriculum Pack 43€5 

tiFbn Pack.4349 

now in slock 

Extdrhffl.. ., .,.£72 

Dust cover....,,.......45 

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Citizen 1S0E printer....,,....£169.99 

UHF leads TV to computer 

(BSQ/SpBctrum)..£1.99 

Cassette leads (BBC/Sp«truni)..£l,99 
SAM Seart cables 

[connects to monitor)...,..,.,,...£9.99 

SAM Scart cable for Microvitec 

Cub monitor... .,..£9.99 

SAM dual joystick adaptor 

(connects 2 joysticks)..,..,..,...£7.99 

SAM Midi cables£6.49 
3.5' DS/DD disks box of L0„......£5.99 

Flus D/BBC dual disk drive 

connectors__ £14.99 

Spectrum 48K power supplies ,,.,£9.99 
Spectrum I28K power supplies £14.99 
A4 printer paper 2000 sheets ..,£19.99 

For full price lift of other product* 
please ring. 


! SAM COUPE computer 

+ 1 drive..,,..,. £199.99 

SAM COUPE computer 

+ 2 drives......£275.99 

SAM disk drive....£79.99 

SAM 256K RAM expansion.£39.95 

SAM COMMS interface.£29-95 

SAM disk interface...£29-95 

VOICE BOX allows SAM le 

speak... £39.99 

SAM COUPE computer pack 

(512K + drive). .„„„-„£234.99 

SAM advanced technical manuai.£ 15-99 

Citizen 120D prmter parallel.£140-99 

Mannesman MTB parallel 

printer.,....,... .....£135.99 

Parallel prmter cable 

SAM/BBC/+D type....,.,....£7.99 

Parallel printer cable Spectrum 
+3 type.....................,—... . ,£7.99 




Alt price* include VAT - £5,0C. Pottagn all rtftw pnxfad* (l W 


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SPECIAL FOR ALL FORMAT SHOW 

Citizen Swift 9 colour printer.....£195.50 

3.5’ disks ii ■ 4. b ■ ■ ■ m PHBIMf MMItllRH «■+ I HHf r liii liiin rr ■■ m m ■■ £3.50 for 10 

Colour Dump utility for SAM COUPE .............£7.99 

Disk boxes lockable 

40 disk size ■■“I'MMM * + * ■ ■ a + + li i I I * +"fe H ■ ■ li * r ft fi ■ ■ 4 r ■■■■■«■■■■■ m • m • m m m mmammwmaam £4.50 
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Also at show: 

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NIGT DISK DRIVES AND PLUS D' INTERFACES REPAIRED 
3 MONTHS GUARANTEE GIVEN ON REPAIRS. 

Please telephone before sending repairs anytime until Spm 


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SW124 Mono Monitor £10699 

Megafile 30 Hard Diak £390100 

Megafile 601 lard Disk £52695 

External 35' Disk Drive £6600 

Golden image Hand Scanner £199.00 
Foroet-Me Clock i £19.95 

ST Monitor Switch Dox £14.95 

STE Stereo Mart lead £12.99 

STFM Mart lead £12 99 

STE Stereo MKI S833 lead £12.99 

STFM MKH 6833 lead £12.99 

Joystick/Mouae- extension lead £4.99 

Replacement Mouse lead £395 

Starkiard Pamlel lead £5,95 

hlemal PSU for STFM/E £100.00 

Replacement ST keyboard £100.00 

Mouse Mat £350 

2 cables £699 

14 pin d/i plug 1ST diak tiivel £2-30 

14 p<n (4n socket tST dak drive) £3,00 

13 pin dn plug (ST monitor) £2.00 


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PRINTERS 


ACCESSORIES & RIBBONS 


All of our printers come with a parallel cable to suit Atari ST 
Amiga and all standard PC etc (olher cables available at 
extra cost - ask for details) Al printers carry a full 12 months 
warranty. We only sell genuine UK stock - we do not offer 
inferior grey imports’ 




ANEW a NEW A 

We are now official stockists of the latest 
in quality / low price ST hard dak 
drives from Protar All FTotar hard dsk 
drives come with a ful I? month 
REPLACEMENT warranty (no lengthy 
repairs!!, a DMA through port, device 
number switching and Prater hand diak 
drives are the onfy manufacturer with 
the ATARI COMPATIBILITY seal of 
approval 

A PHONE NOW A 

Phone us today for prices Hard dak sizes 
ranging from 20MB to 440MB inducing 



DIY t 512k ipgrade 
DIY 2 - 2mb upgrade 
DIY 4 - 4mb upgrade 


£29.99 

£89,00 

£15900 


Al STE Ram Kite come with instmcljcns 
and DO NOT requre soldering in mosl 



For contents of the ST software packs - 
see the listing of ST computer ranges 
on the opposite page or phone us for 
details. 

Discovery 1 Pack Software 
Discovery 2 Pack Software 
Extra Pack Software 
Tenstar Pack Software 
Power Pack Software 
Curriciium Pack Software 


for 

£1&99 

£16,99 

£39.99 

£29.95 

£34.99 

£3995 


St yyxcM 


Gaits SeqMcncer One RING 

DrT Tiger Cub RING 

C-Lab * ALL PACKAGES * RI NG 

Steinberg * ALL PACKAGES * FUNG 



The amazing 32Mhz TTO30 is now 
available in the folkwing configurations : 
2mb ram 40rrib h/dsk £1099.99 

4mb ram, 40mb h/dek £199999 

Bmb ram, 40mb h/disk £219999 

H res colour monitor £440,00 

19" Hi res mono monitor RING 


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Contriver 5-in I 
Conti ver Trackman 
Golden Image Optical 
Logtech ST 


£2100 

£2999 

CR1.NG. 

£2995 



SPECIAL OF FEU! AH Gtizen Swift 9 24 and 24X printers come 
with a FREE cohur kit and cobur ribbon until the end of May B9t 
SPECIAL OFFEflf For a limited period only we are offering a 
CfTlZEH PRiHTER STARTER PACK with aS Citizen printers. The 
pack, composes of . 35" disk full of printer drivers tor the SI Amiga 
£ PC; 200 sheets of fanfold tractor feed paper; 200 fanfold tractor 
feed address labels; 5 tractor feed envelopes aH for only £1299 on 
top of the price of the printer 


Citizen 120D ♦ (9-pin> E139.00 

Citizen Swift 9 (9-pin) *PHEE colour (it* C19900 

Citizen 124D (24-pin) £20900 

Citizen Swift 24 (24-pin) ‘TREE COLOUR (IT* £299.00 

Citizen Swift 24X (15 24-pin) *net COLOUR (IT* E399.00 

CITIZEN RIBBONS 

12 QD / Swift 9 Black Ribbon £4.50 

124D l Swift 24 Black Ribbon £4.50 

Swift 9 / Swift 24 Colour Ribbon £16.00 

Swift 24X Black Ribbon £7.50 

Swift 24X Colour Ribbon £18.00 

CITIZEN ACCESSORIES 

124D / Swift 9 & 24 Semi Auto S/Feeder £39.99 

124D / Swift 9 & 24 Au tomatic S/Feeder £7 9.99 

Swift 9 & Swift 24 Colour Kit £34.99 

Swift 24X Colour Kit £39.99 

Swift 24 Font Garda <6 different) each £35 00 

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Star LC10 Mono (9-pin) 

Star LC200 Cotour t9-pin) 

Star LC24-10 Mono (24-pin) 
Star LC24-20Q Mono (24-pin) 
Star LC24-200 Colour (24-ph) 
Star XB24-10 Mono (24-pin) 
Star XB24 15 Mono 15" (24-ph) 

STAR RIBBONS 
Star LG 10 Black Ribbon 
Star LC1Q Colour Ribbon 
Star LG20G Black Ribbon 
Star LG200 Colour Ribbon 
Star LC24-1G Black Ribbon 
Star LC24-2G0 Black Ribbon 
Star LC24-2O0 Colour Ribbon 

Other Printers__ 


Canon BJ10E Portable Bubble Jet 
Hewlett Packard Desk Jet 500 
Panasonic KXP tt24i (24-pini 

ACCESSORIES 

Canon BJ10E Sheet Feeder 

HP Desk Jet Epson FX Emulation Card 

RIBBONS / INK 
Canon BJ1GE Ink Cartridge 
HP Desk Jet Ink Cartridge 
Panasonic KXP 1124i Ribbon 


£15500 

£ 220,00 

£215.00 

£260.00 

£295.00 

£475.00 

£600.00 


£3,50 

£ 5.20 

£5.00 

£ 10.00 

£4,75 

£7,50 

£1100 


£289.00 

£459.00 

£279.00 


£59.99 

£59.99 


£19.99 

£14.99 

£900 


LASER PRINTERS & PLOTTERS AVAILABLE 
ON REQUEST - PLEASE RING US WITH 
YOUR REQUIREMENTS 


512KI 


0: j with clock 


Rani upgra' 

AS902QMbfWdD»sk 
External 35" Disk Driw 
Golden Image Han i Scanner 
Amiga Stereo scar t lead 
Amiga Stereo MKI 1 8833 lead 
Standard, Parallel I tad 
Mouse Mat 
2 x Mid cobles 


£2999 

C28495 

£65.00 

£199,00 

£1289 

£1299 

£596 

£3.50 

£039 




Maateraound Sam xer 
Deluxe Paint verak n 3 
Vlcfi Amiga video d-gitising 
Astra Software B&ck 


£3695 

£64,95 

£9999 

£2395 


8833 ..,. 

yy\ idtx££*>T 


The Philips 8333 Mkll is the perfect 
colour monitor foi ST and Amiga 
owners. With its s ereo sound and super 
quality picture it j shews off the fuli 
capabilities of the STE and the Amiga. 
The Philips SS33 \4klt also comes with 
12 months on site warranty FREE! 


8833 wilh STFM £ able 
8833 wilh STE cf die 
8833 with Amiga t able 


£24999 

£249.99 

£24999 


LYNX 


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The Atari lynx is n superb fuH coiout 
hand held, games console using plug in 
cartridge games, he Lynx can be used 
with either hat ten ?sora mains power 
supply unit Ait otii Lynx machines come 
with instructions a id mains power 
supply tmit 


lynx Console 

lynx Console Ewlth free 

California Games r artridge) 

Carrying Cast 
Carrying Pouch 
Car Power Adapter 
Sun Vbor/Scratch rJhield 
Mains Power Sqapl / 


£95.00 

£117.50 

£1499 
£1199 
£9.S0 
£699 
£14 99 


ALL GAMES 
Blue Lightning 
Chips Challerbe 
Gates of Zendocoj 
Klax 

Paper Boy 
Road Blasters 
gar 

me World 
Zarior Mercenary 


£ 


£19.99 EACH: 
California Games 
Etectrocop 
Gauntlet If 

Mi aa Pacman 

Raitpage 
l iobO Squall 

Shanghai 

Xenophobe 


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ZY H amplified stereo speakers are 
suitable for the S’i E AfvaGA & SEGA 
MFGADFtfVE Tries come with a power 
supply and offer l Jl range stereo sound 
for only £37.50 including VAT * delivery 























































IT’S BACK !! - 
THE POWER PACK !! 

Duo Pc moisiiD cu&lomw demand. we Olfi t-'poud 1c 
announce fhtil wv new haw luilhcr jtacks ciI ci.i r t>Q<S-l 
iljlLrji Atari ST S-Ollwau? pQCfc CuruiJiiiiitq al 

Art^iburncf, k Type, Gaunlk-t 2 , Super Hang On. 
SpOCC Hornet. Star Glider. Ovei lander. Super Huc*V. 
Pac Manta, Nehylus, f liminaior, Pucdal&r, Xenon,, 
ftorrrbu/ol. Bomb Jack.. Double Dragon. Slack 
lamp, Out tun. Star Gaaie and Slat Pay 

Ail al lho above gomos. are available in Ihe fowui Pack 
Sail wain pack far an I* (STOCKS IIMHIIO SO HUR*t) 


£34.99 


Ihoii leu. than £1 ?5 sa-ch I 


(lOqUHei double-a dud inleinat diir. drive} 


BEST PRICES (DEPT MCE). BRIT A, GRAFTON PLACE, 
WORTHING, WEST SUSSEX, BN11WX 


Imb 


Zmb 


£299.00 £329.00 


4mb 

£409.00 


£309.00 £339.00 £419.00 


ALL AJAKJ ST PRICES INCLUDE VAT AND UK DELIVERY ALL PRODUCTS CftKKY A LULL _ _ _ _ 

12 MONTH WARRANTY PLEASE LUNG US BEFORE ORDERING TO CHUCK STOCKS AND 5j2l( 

CURRENT PRICES 

ATARI STB STANDARD PACK . consists of the computer with* 
mo tee. Iv lead manual and all rorinecbng leads etc. The Standard Pack is sijjpied^ *Dlf *UU 
with NO software, 

ATARI STE DISCOVERY 1. consists of the Standard Pack and 
ST OS. First Basic. NeoChrome and 4 games (Gamer Command, Space Harrier. £279.00 
Gutrur Domb Jock] 

ATARI STE DISCOVERY 2. consists oi the Standard Pack and 

First Basic, ST Tour. NeoChrome and 4 games (Dragons Breath, Skper Cycle. £279.00 £309.00 £339.00 £419.00 

hdiana. Jones Anarchy) 

ATARI STE TEN STAR. consists of Standard Pack and Asterix, 

GhessPlayer 2150. Driving Force. Uve * Let Die. Onslaught. Pipemaoin. Rtek 
DanaPfoua Rock n Roi. Squeek and Trivial Pursuit * 

ATARI STE POWER. consists of Standard Pack and 20 top selling 
arcade games (for individual game lilies see the black box. on the bottom left of 
ihis page! 

ATARI STE EXTRA. conasts of Standard Pack and Kuma word 
processor, database, spreadsheet & business graphics as well OS First Basic, 

Hyper Paint STAG Adventure game designer and Prince game, 

ATARI STE CURRICULUM. consists of Standard Pack and also 

XT™ 3 £299.00 £329.00 £359.00 £439.00 


£289.00 £319.00 £349.00 £429.00 


£289.00 £319.00 £349.00 £429.00 


£289.00 £319.00 £349.00 £429.00 


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AMIGA ASOO BASE PACK A5Q0 computer, mouse. tv modulator, manuals. Workbench, etc supplied bare' with no 
games software * STOCKS VERY LIMITED - SO HURRY * 


£299.00 


AMIGA ASOO 1MB PACK ASOO compute r wilh extra SI2K ram expansion, mouse, tv modulator manuals Workbench, 

etc atppfcxi bane' with no games software. * OUR RAM EXPANSIONS 00 NOT INVALIDATE YOUR WARRANTY * £ 325.00 


AMIGA ASOO ASTRA PACK ASOO 512k computer, mouse, tv modulator, manuals. Workbench, etc suppled with 10 

great software titles (see A5001MB ASTRA pack below for details) £ 325.00 


AMIGA ASOO 1MB ASTRA PACK Amiga ASOO computer. 5t£K Ram expansion wilh clock and battery back-up, 

mouse, tv modulator, manuals. Workbench etc disks* plus the ASTRA 10 ^.mes pock ncludhg the Mowing games: Do to storm. Dungeon £350.00 

Quest E Motion. Grand Monster Stem, Kid Gloves, Powerpiay. RVF Honda. Shuffle Puck Cafe. Soccer and Tower of Babel 

AMIGA A13QO BASE PACK A15Q0 tAb RAM fexpan&bie to 9Mbi computer wilh 2 x 3.5" 680k <Jsk drives bull in 

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books: "The A-Z of Computer Jargon" and "Getting the moat from your Amiga* 


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• Pang on arcade machine cartridge! 

• All Formats computer Fair latest 



nice Mk toutha. 

space inside any Arc, Two TML- 
equipped Arcs can be linked via a cable 
anct can then communicate al over 
lOMtwts per second. Files can be 
swapped from one machine to another 
by dragging them into a 'Send 5 window 
or out of a 'Receive' box, « the system 
can act like any other filing system. A 
later development will allow a network 
of up tD eight Arcs to communicate this 
way, with one acting as a sort of 
'telephone exchange', 

AS EASI AS... 

At first look, icon Technology's 
Eas Writer is gocd. It's a windowed 
word processor which, unlike its 
obvious competitor Ffrsf Word Plus, 
uses outline fonts and RISC OS printer 
drivers to the fuH. It has a very 
structured approach to writing - you 
can set up a hierarchy qf chapters, 
sections and sub-sections, incorporate 
lists and so on, and each can have a 
text style associated with it. It definitely 
(eels like a word processor rather than 
a DTP package, despite the fact that 


you can incorporate drawings and 
sprites into your document. Rather 
cleverly, these can even flow with the 
tent, so you can use it along with 
Computer Concepts' fqudsor as a 
technical authoring package. 

Table creation is a dream-it's 
definitely the star turn, You tell 
fasWritef to begin a table and just 
type. You can insert or delete rows, 
add borders and guidelines, and create 
items that span two or mpre columns, 

The (as yet rather unreliable} beta- 
release of EasrkYrrfer betrays some of 
Icon's strengths in the Mac world and 
relative inexperience of Acorn software. 
A couple of 'vital' functions are missing, 
in particular the ability to use the Copy 
key to- delete forwards or to change 
case. Cut Mac touches, like any typing 
replacing what's selected, are neat 
Sadly EasiWfater doesn't inherit the 
Mac's Tab key to move between fields 
in a dialogue. Later on this year. Icon 
will release Tech Writer, a big brother 
with equation-editing facilities built it. 
There's already a 'junior version'; by 
editing a simple text file you can limit 
the menu items that appear, simplifying 
EasiWrtter down to bare essentials. 

1 can see this becoming the word 
processor of choice in the home and 
schools. The fact that it needs 2Mb to 
run could be just the excuse people 
need to upgrade. But businesses will 
remain sceptical of it until a maiknerge 
utility is released. Icon Technology; 
0533 546225. Pres: 0276 72046. 

Ken Coumarin 


NIRVANA FOR THE PLUS 

One of the unfortunate things about the 
new Amstrad Plus machines is that not 
all of the exasling software out there will 
run on it. One of the main casualties 
was Goldmark Systems' Nirvana disk 
management software. Well now 
Goldmark is producing a new version 
which will work on both oM and new 
machines, The only thing for Plus own¬ 
ers to watch out for is that some of the 
features will not work - the tape 
archiver, for example. This is because 
the 6123 Plus has no tape facilities. 

There's a copy winging its way to 
my desk even as we speak, so watch 
out for it - and for some other 
Goldmark goodies, come to that. 

PANG 

Arrrggghh! Imagine being attacked by 
wave after wave of vicious killer bal¬ 
loons, great bouncing, monstrous, 
gaseous bags of.,, um... air..., Well, lis¬ 
ten, it's terrifying, OK? It most be, or 
Mitchell Corp. wouldn't have used the 
plot for its fabulously popular Pang 
arcade machine. Come to that. Ocean 
must have thought it a pretty neat idea 


too, or it wouldn't have done a conver¬ 
sion lor Amstrad cartridge machines. 

These giant, inflated bladders are 
just so much hot air, mind. Give them a 
good poke with your harpoon gun and 
they just fall apart. Trouble is, they fall 
apart into two slightly smaller balloons, 
and these are just as fatal if they touch 
you. OK, then, give them another belt 
with the old harpoomlobber.,, yikes! 
Even more, and even smaller, balloons! 
It's only the smallest balloons which 
actually disappear entirely when you hit 
them, so things are a bit tougher than 
they might be. 

You start off with six lives, a time 
limit and a couple of big bouncy bal¬ 
loons to dispose of. The game is part 
reflex, part strategy. The reflex comes 
in when you try to dodge the wallowing 
gasbags, The strategy involves dealing 
with just one balloon at a time, so that 
you have the minimum number possible 
on-screen at once. 

The action takes place against a 
variety of scenic backgrounds around 
the world, There are 17 different loca¬ 
tions, each with 3 screens, so there's 
plenty to keep you going - especially 


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★ Over 10 years experience with Commodore computers 

★ 20 qualified technician engineers at your disposal 
+ We will undertake to repair your Amiga 500 computer for just £44,95 including 

parts, labour, VAT and post & packing 

★ Most computers will be turned around in just 24 hours! 

★ Prices include full service check, overhaul, soak-test and replacement of power 
supply unit if necessary 

★ Repairs to keyboard and disk drive also included (£25 extra if these units are 
unrepairable and require complete replacements) 

★ All repairs covered by a 90 day warranty 


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Upgrade your Amiga from 51 2K to 1Mb of memory for just £25,00 

SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE OFFER: 

If you submit your computer to ourselves for repair* enclosing 
this advert along with just an additional £25, we will supply ana fit 
512K 


a 


memory expansion at no extra cost 


How to lake advantage of this exceptional offer: simply send or hand 
deliver your machine to the workshop address detailed right, enclosing 
payment and this, advert and we wilt do the rest. (If possible please 
include a daytime telephone number and fault description). 

* If you require 24 hour courier to your door ; phase add £5 else your 
J computer will he sent back by contract parcel post, 


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STUDIO MASTER HOUSE 
CHAUL END LANE 
LUTON, BEDS, LU4 8EZ 
Telephone (0582) 491949 - (4 lines) 

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sinte every screen features a different 
'puzz le'. Things start off easy enough,, 
but later on there are ladders to climb, 
blocks to destroy and hazards to avoid. 

There are also little creatures that 
wander on to the screen at times to 
either help or hinder you, A creature 
that looks like a giant whelk is a pain in 
the neck, because although it doesn't 
hurt you, walking into it takes away 
your ability tD tire for several seconds, 
Crabs are much more useful - they use 
their claws to pop balloons for you! 

You tan also puck up extrr 
weapons now and again, but some are 
more desirable than others, Avouf the 
dynamite in particular, since it immedk 
ately blows all the big balloons into 
ttieir component little ones! Nasty. 

Best of all is the simultaneous two- 
player mode. You get twice the 
firepower, after all. Only one problem - 
you get less than half the strategy, ft's 
not necessarily that much easier. 

Did i say the twppiayer mode was 


the best thing of al? Wrong. The best 
thing about Pang is the sheer quality of 
its graphics and sound- Ocean's pro¬ 
grammers have done it again, with a 
cart game that defies its 8-bit origins. 
Its not quite STstandard, but it's 
nearer 16-bit than 3-bit, that's for sure. 

Pang sells for the usual stiffish cart 
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• The piracy argument spills over from Express Mail 

• System 3's brilliant new cartridge games compilation 

• Crystal Gazing; Looking ahead to future games 


PIRACY PREDICAMENT 

Over the past few days P have been 
contemplating the subject of piraey r and 
no doubt the mention of the 'P' word 
has brought moans and groans of 
despair from many among you, but the 
Subject is nat as twisted or convolved 
as it may appear. Ask a pirate {sorry, 
thief) why he/she pirates and the 
majority of excuses will be "The 
software houses charge ton much - 
many games are not worth the high 
prices”. So, ask a software house why 
its prices are so high and the majority 
of answers will be “the software pirates 
force the prices up by their actions" 

Are you thinking what I'm th (iking? If 
greedy people keep their grubby mils 
off pre-release demos and new games 
then indeed prices may well fall. A very 
simple answer to 3 very serious 
problem... maybe. 

It would be interesting to see 
whether the cartridge renaissance has 
done anything to curb piracy on the 64 
[although I have recently heard rumours 
of a 'cracked' version of Navy Seats cn 
disk). This then suggests another 


couple of reasons for piracy; people do 
rt either to prove themselves as 
competent hackers or as a personal 
challenge. Is there actually an answer 
to the problem, or is it just a fact of 
life? Your views on the subject are very 
welcome. 

ALL THE BEST 

System 3, one of the firmest cartridge 
advocates, have recently released what 
I consider to be one of the best 
compilations around. The (Premier 
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£15.99 (cassette) ar £19-99 (disk) - 
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already reviewed the Last Ninja 
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remaning fWe;The Last Nfrtje fl is, not 
supnsingly, the sequel to the Last 
Ninja, and the ga-neplay is identical to 
its predecessor, The game is set in 
modern-day New York, and ihe levels 
span Central Park, Ihe streets, the 
sewers, the skyscrapers, and 
eventually the bad-guy's headquarters. 
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Gray music, and the puzzles are nicely 
structured lard often quite clever). The 
range af weapons is reminiscent gf the 
original, hut combat has a unique twist - 
when an enemy has been defeated you 
have a limited fame before he regains h«s 
str ength and attacks again. A highly 
playable game, but remernberithere is 
VERY liTTLE difference between this and 
the Ninja Rem c 

intemafaonaf Karate was probably 
the company's first major success, way 
back in 1986, it walked all over 
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quality, animation and the superlative 
Rob Hubbard soundtrack, It foHows the 
usual a twg player format, with the usual 
range of moves (as well as several 
humerous touches]. Sadly, it does tend 
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releases (not to mention the excellent 
i!K+). However it is extremely enjoyable 
tP play, and the innovative bonus section 
is just the icing on the cake (albeit a tad 
stale!). 

Dommatons a multi level, mutti-toad 
shoot 'em up, and boasts a vast 
collection of extra weapons and ship 
enhancements. The graphics have been 
supplied by Dokk and Hugh Riley, and 
while they are both excellent artists in 
their own right, their graphics simply 
don’t gel. So what you end up with are 
some surreal backdrops (with organic 
plant Itfe and huge frogs) camOmed with 
shiny spaceships and aliens. Still. it 
otters the player some hectic vertical 
and horizontal stages, as well as somE 
great music. I would riot recommend rt 
usually, but the price renders it 



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unmissable. 

Myth is undoubtedly the best of the 
bunch, and the attention and care 
lavished on it simply oozes out. The 
game is set across several time zones, 
each based on various myths or 
legends. Levels include Hades, the 
Vikings, the Pyramids, plus an utterly 
superb ethereal level. While the game 
has a few faults and hugs, the 
astounding Bob Stevenson graphics 
captivate and enthral, The only problem 
with Myth is that it's so fiendishly difficult* 
One has to try so hard to reach the next 
section, if only to see the display of 
graphics! A great game, but not for the 
short-tempered, 

Ffomba'ds Quest is a jo.ty platform 
romp following the bog-standard 
'Girlfriend is captured by evil tyrant and 
you have fo kill him and rescue her 1 
format. Ffimbo is a cute ittte fellow, who 
traverses a number off andscapes 
picking up vital obiects and money (to 
use in the mter-fevel shop). Of course, 
there is the usual selection of nasty 
Enemies fo hinder your progress - most 
of them are extremely cute indeed! The 
real joy about fiimbo's is the scrolling; 


superb two layer paraflax, with loads of 
colour splashed around, The game is 
vaguely simitar to Hawkeys, in that the 
walkabout/pick up element becomes 
slightly repetitive as the game 
progresses. Having said that, it's a jolly 
game at a laughable price. 

To complement the Hunter's review 
in Express 131. here is a splendid httle 
listing for infinite lives. It works fine on 
the original Thalamus version, but I'm not 
sure about the Kixx re-release- - if it 
doesn't work, sony. The game ateo 
loads slightly differently, so don't be 
alarmed! 

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And here are some Action Replay pokes 
for the Last Nfoja If and IMyth (reviewed 
above). There is a poke for each level, 
and they reward you with infinite lives in 
both cases. 


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ON THE HORIZON 

It's official - the software slump is now 
upon us, indeed sister magazine 
Comm&dwe Format has received only a 
handful of games for review over the 
past few weeks. Perhaps the onty games 
to be found until Jufy will be compilations 
and budget re-releases. 

There is no need to shed a lonely 
tear - it happens every year. The only 
consolation i s the thought of all those 
great games in the future. Here are a 
few titles which should be worth the 
wart; The Ms ff (Thalamus) another great 
compilation featuring Snare, Retrograde, 
Creatures, and Summer Camp. Night 
Breed ill (Ocean) Npt sure about the tiNe, 
but the game (based on a Clive Barker 
novel) should resemble its so-so 
predecessor quite closely. FokHOceanl 
a conversion of the 20p eating arcade 
machine, should be something to look 
out for Creatures iV (Thalamus) I’ve seen 
a recent demo, and the game looks well 
coor. Needless to say, reviews of these 
titles are imminent. 

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• CodeMaster's Slightly Magic: Destined to go to the top? 

• Two totally red hot pokes for Total Recall and Bumpy 



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Disk Information Coper Editor, to give its 
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release of version 3-0. Mot only that but 
there's also a 5AM version to boot which 
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make no mistake. 

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sector; get a ful directory listing; 
recover erased files; read file headers; 
and see a graphical display ol how much 
space is left on toe disk and where the 
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impressive features. 

This latest version also provides 
high capacity formats, which means 
17SK, 193K and 2D3K-siz&d disks are 
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extended directories. 

DICE Version 3.0 in its Plus 3 
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chunky manual. The SAM version seems 
pretty similar hut that's no bad thing and 
comes complete with a similarly thick 
and welPwritten manual tor only £12.95 
or 3. Enrich disk. Kobrahsoft tell me it's 
compatible with all Coupes, whatever 
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not sure how harmoniously it will co¬ 
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moment, 

You can find the pretty clever 
people at Kobrahsoft Software by writing 
to “Pteasant View", Hulme Lane, Hulme, 
Longtor, Stoke-on Trent, ST3 5BH. 

MAGIC MOMENTS 

Last week I printed Mark Harris's poke 
for Sigtotfy Magic and thought "what' s 
that thenr thereby showing how 
untrendy and out-of-date I am. In a 
desperate attempt to "getwrth if (man) I 
pul on my wing-callared shirt and afghan 
coat and went out to purchase it- Now I 
know the said thing is a CodeMaster's 
cheapie and a very good one at that. It's 
another one of those arcade adventures 


they're so good at churning out although 
thus time without any sight of their 
lovable star character. Dizzy, Instead 
you control Slightly, a well-animated 
wizard who needs to rescue a princess 
from a dragon. But don't let that last 
sentence put you off because Sllrghtly 
Magic is very well done indeed with 
loads of colourful and deviously arranged 
screens to get torough. 

There's the usual assortment of 
nasties, all welkfrawn and animated, who 
luckily con be seen off with various spells 
that you can collect. Mainly it's a case of 
picking up objects and spells and using 
them all in the bme-honoured arcade 
adventure style. 

Definitely a cut above the average 
budget offenng, this is a welcome and 
original departure from tired rtveleases 
3 nd ripped-off arcade clones that make 
up the cheapo market. Hurrah for 
CodeMastersI 

Anything you want to say to me? If 
you've got any comments, criticisms or 
suggestions regarding the column I'd 
welcome them with open arms and 
cheers aplenty. Also wanted are any tips, 
pokes, wrinkles or cheats for the 
Speedy, either lor games or general 
using. Send everything to me, that's 
Robin Atway at The Spectrum Column, 
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• Font conversion the easy way - thank the lord! 


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a whrle 1 back. Follow the instructions 
above to get it working and leave out 
any poke you don't want. Mark 
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Multiface pokes as welt What a 
ithargainl Infinite thanks for all eternity 
go once again to Mark. And he'd like 
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personage Steven Kemp, 

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Want to see a bug in System 71 Try this: 
type some comments into lhe Get into 
window (which is accessible from the 
File menu) and click on the check box tD 


lock the file. Close the Get Info window 
and then open it again. Hey presto? - 
your comments were not recorded by 
the Finder, To make sure comments are 
kept, you have to type them in, close the 

METAMORPHOSIS PRO 


window, open rt again and then lock the 
file. Hot a spectacular bug, but enough 
to keep Apple's software developers on 
their toes... 

Incidentally, if you're stiN unaWe to 
get your hands on System 7, it's worth 
taking eight disks into your local Apple 
dealer and asking if they'll just copy the 
new System for you, Apparently it mil be 
another month or so before all the docu¬ 
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the full package, of course., will cost you 
£50. Out if you can make do without the 
manuals, many dealers will copy the 
software for you tree of charge, Of 
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so on} and convert fonts between Mac Types 1 and 3 as 
wel as TrueType, PC PostScript and NeXT (a* If anyone 
actually owned a NeXT}. So, while this might seem more 
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(ram that dealership.,. 

One thing that has upset some peo¬ 
ple is that removable hard disks cannot 
be used as virtual memory storage 
areas under System 7, But. then, as one 
Mac developer said, “Removing a hard 
disk while the Macintosh was using it lor 
virtual memory would be rather like rip¬ 
ping out SIMMs while the Mac was still 
turned on!" 

Apple Computer in trie States is fac¬ 
ing a lawsuit which claims that the 
company made false financial state¬ 
ments to the public m 1991 , prior to its 
May financial report on the third financial 
quarter, which said that corporate earn¬ 
ings were under pressure, An Apple 
spokesman has said that the claims are 
‘completely without merit’, and that the 
company will oppose them all- following 
the financial statement, Apple shares 
{bopped somewhat' the plaintiffs are 
hoping to bring suit on behalf of all pur¬ 
chasers of Apple common stock 
between January 17 and April 30 this 
year. Some of the officers and directors 
of Apple have also been named in the 
case. 

Appple has ordered a new Cray 
supercomputer, said to be worth over 
$4,6 million, it will replace the Cray that 
Apple bought in 1986, and will he used 
for research and development into sub¬ 
jects such as the flow of air and dust 
particles in computer cases. 

Rumour has it that an Apple eaecie 
trve met a Cray exec just after the 
purchase Dlthe first supercomputer in 
1996, and told him proudly that Apple 
was going to use the Cray to help 


develop new Macs, “So what,' replied 
the Cray executive; “We use Macs to 
help develop new Craysr 

ALIASES AND IMPOSTERS 

There is one thing which is incredibly 
annoying when using the Macintosh. If 
you double-click on a document which 
has been created with an application not 
on your hard disk, you are met with a 
dialog which tells you that “the applica¬ 
tion is busy or missing.' Fortunately, fm 
not ihe only one to find this a pam in the 
neck, and some prograrnmers have 


done something about it. Two utilities 
are about which cure the problem - the 
shareware Appfocatibfl Repfacer, and 
frnpostefs, which is free. 

Both require setting up - 
Application flepiaew is easy, while 
Imposters requires you to use ResEdrt, 
which is not for the fainthearted. Once 
you've done this, doubie-clickmg, say, a 
MadfVrrte document will open the word 
processor of your choice and will read 
the file m (assuming that it understands 
the formal). Both utilities are available on 
CIX, in the 'mac/files' list; my choice is 


for imposters, but remember that you 
will also need ResEd.it to use this one. 

Those who fancy having 'aliases' of 
applications (IK or 2K files which, when 
double-clicked, open the real application) 
don't have to upgrade to System 7. 

Again on CtX is an application called 
Alias which creates, yes, aliases, ffs 
easy to use, and means that you can 
have at least a tiny bit of System 7's 
functionality without going through the 
hassle of upgrading, 

Ian Wrigley 


POSTCARD FROM AMERICA 


The l$i is the junior partner in fit high anri compact 
Mac kne. It offer* 68030 power at a n “affordable" 
price. But owners have noticed that there are times 
when the llsi slows deem. One is when it's parfurmtog 
tasks that could use a math co-processor, which I* 
optional. The other slowdown come* when displaying 
256 [8-bit} colours on the screen. 

Several compact Macintosh model* use a portion 
of RAM memory for video display. This Is a good fea¬ 
ture, since it doesn't force users to install costly video 
boards. Unfortunately, the more color you want, the 
slower things get A 5Mbyte llsi runs two rimes faster 
when displaying only black and white, over 256 
colours. Things get a bit better when running only 16 
colours, but rtW slower. What's going on? 

There are two bank* of memory on the llsi mother¬ 
board Bank A is always used for the video RAM. The 
second bank is filled with whatever Davors of stogie in¬ 
line memory modules (SIMM) user* can afford. The 
memory bottleneck occurs in Bank A. 



As the Mac boots up, the 
video and other parti of the operating system are 
loaded Into the memory heap. This doesn't fill up all of 
the megabyte of RAM in the bank, and there's still 
plenty of room for most applications. All of this action 
makes the bank so busy that access slow* - just like 
making a deposit on pay day. 

The solution 1* simple - force the Macintosh to 
move the applications out of Bank A and into higher 
Bank B memory, where it’s not involved with the video, 
Apple provides users with die tool to accomplish this 
business - the RAM cache setting in the General CDEV 
{or tfw Memory Control Pare! In System 7 ). 

If the RAM cache hi adjusted to 768K or greater, 
there's no room In Bank A for applications, ft's all video 

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WHOLE WIRED WORLD 

Steve Gold continues bis search for hot computer news from around the globe. 
This week he's checking into the White House for the latest on piracy, monitoring 
1 Apple’s next moves, getting networked up and trying out German peripherals... 


WHITE HOUSE BEGINS TO BACK ANTI-PIRACY PUSH 


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GERMANS BOOST PORTFOLIO 

Despite what the adverts say, the Atari 
Portfolio being sold at £199 comes with 
just 12$K of RAM White this can be 
expended to 640K using expansion car¬ 
tridges, it is an expensive way of 
boosting memory to that of a basic desk¬ 
top machine. Which is why Becker & 
Partners in western Germany has come 
up wifo a low-cost expansion system for 
the pocket machine. 

Becker & Partners 1 solution is to 
latch on what it calls a Trans Drive to the 
Portfolio, t he interface unit connects the 
Portfolio interactively to any PC compati¬ 
ble, allowing it to access RAM and disk 
drives attached to foe PC on a purely 
transparent basis. 

Pricing on foe Trans Drive is quite 
reasonable at DM 198 which works out 
to be around £80.00 at current exchange 
rales, The company also supplies bud¬ 
get RAM modules for foe Portfolio, if you 
really have to expand memory while on 
the move, 

Contact: Becker & Partners Mobile 
Datensysierne, Posrtach 190. 
Wilhelmstrasse 91, Bifcloriastrasse 51, 
St00 Aachen, West Germany. 

Tel: 01049-241-509018 
Fax: 01049-241-509577 

APPLE TO LAY OFF 1,500 STAFF 

Despite foe fact that the trio of Mac 
Classic corrpLters - unveiled test 
October - are doing well, the recession 
appears !q have hit even the mighty 
Apple. The computer giant is reported to 
be getting ready to axe 1,500 jobs. 

The good news - fpr users of the 
Mac at least - is that the bulk of the job 
cuts will be in administrative depart- 





' Mire Citaric t)8Q30 paww soon 

Seno 1 figures at Apple have promised 
that the next aeneration PE Macs will 
feature the impressive and fast Motorola 


The US Government 1$ to help stamp out company giants from the compter, took very seriously at passing 

Tampan! piracy In foe Far East, amt ether phaimacmfocaf And movie businesses to appropriate legislation to protect valuable 

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parts of foe world. 

The common need for the protection 


of intellectual copyrights brought 


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the White House recently where they 
testified before a US congressional 
committee. All appealed for an 
endorsement of negotiations for a tree- 
trade agreement wtth Ifaitco and a new 
round of towering International trade 
banters. 

The meeting ended with the US 
government agreeing to seek stro nger 






* While Mmaa wwi > ettepf bfatant pkaty. 


ments and should nt direcity affect sates 
and support of the Mac. 

Layoffs are not particularly new for 
Apple. These will be foe fourth in the 
company's 15-year history, in 1981 
Apple shaved 40 people from the payroll, 
while in 1985 1.200 jobs were lost and a 
further 400 staff were axed last year, 

HAYES STEPS INTO UNSTEP 

Hayes has confirmed foal its Lanstep 
Network Operating System (NOS) is now 
shipping to resellers in the US. 

Plans call for the technology to be 
unveiled in the UK on May 29. 
According to Dennis Hayes, the com¬ 
pany's president, the UK rollout marks 
foe first stage in a series of European 
launches for foe technology. 

*Wb lirst unveiled L amsfop at Boston 
Networld in the US and the response has 
been excellent. Resellers appreciate the 
unique opportunity that the technology 
offers,' he said. "What Hayes has done 
is to combine the benefits of tow end net- 


Gas¬ 


works - cheap pricing, ease of installa¬ 
tion and DOS compatibility - with foe 
features of high-end systems," he added. 

Kayes went or to explain that 
Lanstep'S pricing is in iine with current 
low-end systems, yet has all the advan¬ 
tages of a high-end system without foe 
negative aspects of high-end systems - 
high pricing and intensive use of valu¬ 
able system resources. 

Hayes has gone tor a modular 
approach with Lanstep. The basic starter 
kit lor up to five users costs $595,00, A 
developer kit is available for foe same 
price. Upgrade packs, which add another 
live users to the network, cost $395.00, 
white a mail gateway upgrade costs 
exactly the same 

Ten years in foe making, the system 
started to come together about three 
years ago at what was then Waterloo 
Micro Systems in Waterloo, Canada. 

‘When we acquired Waterloo in 
1999 we realised the potential of the 
technology which the company was 


NEW MACS WILL PACK SERIOUS POWER 


68040 micropjecesscf- 

At a recent San Jose conference 
top brass are reported to have stated that 
a tower Mac Is in the pipeline and 
revealed thai 24-bit colour would come as 
standard on tire machine. 

Also in the pipeline from Apple is a 
Mao Classic based on tire 63039 
microprocessor. That's good news lor 
budget Mao users since the only way 
currently open to the low-end users is to 
either upgrade a budget Mac using a 


third-party system <^rd or shell out 
for a toll 6®Q30-based system. 

You may ask 'do I need a 63C30 
microprocessor?' According 1o Apple it's 
not essential. but the company is 
interested in getting rid ol old stock 
before it starts hyping foe new machines. 

The advent of System 7,0, however, 
means that a 68030 microprocessor Is 
test becoming as essential for serious 
Mae work as the 3B6 microprocessor is in 
foe PC arena. 


intellectual copyrights. 

For the computer industry, this 
means that foe flow of pirate software 
from the Far East and other countries 
that do not recognise ircte*nattofi&1 
copyrights wifi cease or el toast be 
considerably stowed down 

US end European business software 
publishers say they are losing millions of 
commlttnenl item alt Its trading partners dollars every year, because certain 
over intellectual property rights, countries ere not taking software piracy 

Put simply, this means that, if non- seriously. But financial based pressure 
US companies ate looking to do business from the White House is sure to prompt 
with the US f then foetr governments must rapid changes. 


already marketing. Lanstep to a com¬ 
pletely new technology system,' he said, 
adding that it represents foe third gener 
ation ol networking systems. 

One key feature ol Lanstep is foe 
fact foat data is written straight to disk 
rather than held in a caching system. 
This means foal an uninterruptible power 
supply is not required, thus cutting foe 
costs ol installing a network still further, 

All this is good news for foe low end 
of foe networking market - it’s bound to 
force pricing ol existing tow-end systems 
such as Sage and the like down stilt fur¬ 
ther as the competition bites, 

EXPANDING NOTEBOOK DRIVES 

Watch out for larger hard drives on note¬ 
book PCs soon. Seagate Technology 
has expanded tts range ol 2,5 inch farm 
factor hard disk drives by adding two 
units specifically designed tor natebggks. 

The new ST9077A drive, when tor- 
matted, car hold up to 16Mb ol data and 
comes with an embedded AT interface, 
Seagate says foat since foe parts that 
drive the mechanism, foe actuator and 
spindle motor, are attached to the cover 
and base ol the drive itself, they can 
withstand greater force than other 
designs; the company claims the drive 
can withstand forces up to 150Gs, 

The new drive tips foe scales at just 
6.5 ounces. Access time is rated at 
under 20 milliseconds. Seagate expects 
the drive to be available in the third quar¬ 
ter of this year. 

The second addition to foe Seagate 
stable, meanwhile, to the ST9O30A, a 
32MB version with broadly foe same 
specifications apart from larger data 
capacity, ft will be ready by autumn, 1 

































































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CIRCUIT CITY 

Choosing whether to buy a PC or an ST used to be a difficult decision. Keith 
Pomfret looks at a PC emulator board for the ST that gives you the best 
of both worlds. 


T he Vortex ATonoe is a hardware PC emulator for 
the Atari ST that allows the ST to emulate an IBM 
AT style PC and run PC software Tlwre are two 
versions of the ATonce, The original AM Hz version and 
a new l&MHz plus version with the ability to display in 
mono VGA. The ATonce will nun on any 520, 1040, 
104OSTE or MEGA ST, but a bcrid warning in the man¬ 
ual suggests that (he installation should only be 
undertaken by Vortex or an authorised distributor. 

The installation includes a very delicate soldering 
fob directly attaching a socket for the ATonce board !o 
the legs of the G&OTO central processor. As there are 64 
tegs and they're all very close together, it is a Job fust 
begging to kill your computer if you're not competent, 

HOT STUFF 

The ATonce carton contained an ATonce board, 64-pin 
DIL socket, a manual and system disk, The hardware is 
protected by an anlr-static bag and the manual warns 
that an anu-static workplace is necessary to do the job. 
This is because the ATonce conteins CMOS oompo- 
rt&nts which can b« permanently damaged by the static 
electricity which builds up in the human body. 

The manual further suggests that the person 
undertaking the installation be grounded against elec¬ 
trostatic charges using special wrisl bands, The manual 
is intended for installation and to be a general reference 
document, For those who want a fuller reference, the 
ATorvce lechnical manual is available from Vortex. 

Before starting with toe hardware side of toe 
upgrade, it's necessary to make a copy of the ATonce 
system disk, then the ST should be unplugged and 
removed to a well Irt and anti-static working area. 

THE INSTALLATION 

The ST should be disassembled according to the 
instructions for your model, With our 1040STFM, we fol¬ 
lowed the instructions to split toe two’halves and 
remove toe keyboard. The melal shield within was tricky 
to remove as it involved twisting melal tags and remov¬ 
ing screws. Once removed from toe 1040, we needed to 
check which revision of the machine we had. Alari has 
made several versions of the 1040 - on seme toe STs 
66000 central processor is in front of toe disk drive, on 
others it is at the Iront under toe keyboard to the left, 

Our machine has the main processor under the 
keyboard and in order to make ii fit, we cut away a sec¬ 
tion of the metal shielding and made sure toat after 
instailalion it didn't touch the ATonce board, Insulating 
tape was used to mask the melal shield where il had 
been eul so it oould not short circuit by toe shield touch- 



dWed to the 6S0QQ prOtftistir m the 5TV malheriword, 

ing the ATonce. In other 1040s, it is necessary to 
remove the disk drive and dispense with one of the sup¬ 
porting legs to make room for it. Which ever model you 
have, it is covered individually in the manual. 

STEADY HAND 

When you've worked out where the 66000 processor is, 
it's lime lor one of Ihe nastiest soldering jobs toal we've 
taken on in a long time The 64-pin DIL (dual in line) 
socket has to straddle the 68000 and its legs have to 
individually soldered to the 68000s, The 66DD0 chip is a 
fraction over ihree inches long and in that length you 
have lo solder two rows of 32 legs. 

This soldering at around 10 joints to the inch takes 
intense concentration and toe slightest slip could spell 
disaster. The 68000 is heat sensitive so if you’re having 
difficulty persuading a joint to take, return to it after it 
has time to cool. Once it’s in place you can insert toe 
ATonce into the DIL socket being careful to align il in 
the way shown on toe diagram in the manual. 

Putting toe ST back together is a reversal of the 
disassembly procedure and it's at this point that I dis¬ 
agree with the manual which recommends testing the 
machine without covers Dn. This should be avoided. To 
plug anything into the mains that has safety covers 
removed is stupid. Before if is plugged back in to test it, 
it should be re-assembled- When you've done this and 
you switch it on, it should boot as usual with the normal 
white screen, if it doesn't, somelhirig's wrong and you 
should switch the ST off and check everything. 

ALMOST A PC 

If toe machine boots into the normal opening screen, 
you should pul the ATonce system disk in. This will 
cause toe ST to run the ATonce installer and then 


THOSE NECESSARY T001S OF THE SOLDERING TRADE 


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4 Antistatic working area 
4 Medium cross head screwdriver 
4 Flat nosed pliers 
4 Melal shears 
4 Earthed electronic for gas) 
soldering Iron with very narrow tip 


4 Desoidering braid or pump 
4 Fine grade muilicore solder 
4 Good lighting conditions 
4 Helping hands | sturdy metal base 
with crocodne clips attached). 

Don't work cm any machine thal 


is plugged into the mains, 240v can 
end will deprive you ol Ihe rest of 
yoiir life, II iis good working practice 
to Check everything on Ihe bench 
before you start working to make 
sura that nothing is live' 


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prompt you for a PC DOS disk. At this point you're 
ready to run PC programs on your ST, 

In terms of performance, although Ihe ATonce is a 
286 based AT style emulator, il must still make some 
concessions to the STs hardware and runs with a per¬ 
formance closer to an XT than an AT. However, all well 
behaved PC software that abides la the IBM program¬ 
ming rules (and doesn't make hardware calls directly) 
ran alright. Some of Ihe screen refresh nates were slow, 
bul this i$ normal for emulators. 

All emulators are a compromise, but of ail Those 
tested, ATonce performed the besl. Tho £199 price tag 
plus £34 if you want it professionally fitted and say £50 
for Ihe PC DOS brings the price lo £203, only £16 
cheaper than a PC XT clone we reviewed recently. 

II you want a versatile ST, get toe ATonce, if you 
want a PC spend the extra £16 and buy the real thing. ■ 


Vortex ATonce ST (8MHz) is dtstnbuted by Silica Shop 
on 081-309 1111 and costs £199 inc VAT The faster 
running 1$MHz AT Once Plus costs £229 inc VAT 
Peripherals for tt are adaptors for MEGA STs and STEs 
The adaptors for the $T£ and Mega ST are £29 

if you don't feel confident to fit the ATonce yourself 
and would tike this emulator in your PC without losing 
your warranty\ Silica Shop wiltf/t Ihe ATonce or ATonce 
plus for £34 without affecting your warranty 




THE VERDICT 


FOR 

▲ WeN specified hardware emulator that allows you 
to run industry standard PC software cm lira St 
A Supports hard disks 
A Well supported by distributor 
A Works cm alt STs 


AGAINST 



▼ Ntert user installable unless you' re a wirebesd 

▼ DeNwIe soldering could damage ST 
T Most supported screen resolutions need 

mono monitor 

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32 SHOPPING EXPRESS 



Holding on to some terrific tips that other readers could use? Can't persuade your printer to per¬ 
form? Getting in a muddle over your modem? Worry no longer. Write to Keith Pomfret, Tech 
Tips / New Computer Express, 3D Monmouth Street, Bath BA 1 2BW, 



Canon Fodder 


I recently pureased a Canon 6J- 
Ifte printer which I am using with 
Atari STE and Cambridge ZG8 
computers. 

When printing out from 
Piped ream on the Z66 Ihe lop line 
of print is out of alignment with the 
rest of the printed teset, despite 
being lined up correctly on the 
268 screen.. 

I get round ibis by inserting 9 
"blank line" at line one before 
priming, but I wonder if there is an 
adjustment I can make to the 
printer driver Instead. Can you 
help please? 

Do you know pd 9 suitable 
printer driver for Easy Draw? Ibis 
is Ihe only Atari program I am 
unable lo use with the Canon 


bubble |et. 

Peter Dickie, Edinburgh. 

The beat place to get printer drivers and 
tweaks' lor printer drivers is a good 
established PD library where the 
librarian Knows the machine and has a 
web of contacts throughout the machine 
specific world Most of the utility and 
application problems lhat people have 
will have been encountered before and 


the PD libraries lend to operate a loose 
lorum in which problems are bashed 
around and programs and solutions are 
usually found 

For the Atan ST you could do a lot 
worse lhari to contact Goodman PD in 
the potteries, Mike Goodman runs a PD 
and Shareware library and regularly 
publishes a catalogue ol his wares that 
includes news and reviews ol the ST FD 
world. The Goodman PD library can be 
contacted at 16 Conrad Close, Meir Hay 
Estate, Longtpn Stoke-on-Trent. If you’ve 
a query you could give 'heir enquiry line 
a ring on 0782 335650. 

Dumb modem 

You are my last hope of sorti ng 
nut a problem I have wilh a modem 
that I received free gratis, but 
without manuals or other into. 

Anyway, I have connected H 
to my Amiga 500 with a RS232 
cable (l Brink IQ the pin layout 
below to what I have used. 

Mato Female 

2 2 

3 3 

5 5 

$ 6 

7 7 



5 8 

20 20 

22 22 

These have come from the Amiga 
manual, but I am not sure If they 
are right. 1 am using NComm 1.9 
(enclosed) but when I dial, the 
machine comes up with "Modem 
nol responding". 

Could you please tall me what 
I am doing wrong as It is a shame 
to scrap a good modem, 

Andy Reeves, Rotherham. 

There's nothing wrong with NComm so 
we must assume that it's either your 
cable, Amiga or modem. Test the cable 
for continuity using a multimeter. 
Assuming that it tests out OK try it on 
another Amiga/modem combination that 
is known to work, If that's OK and it's nol 
ihe cable, check the Amiga by trying a 
modem.'tead combination that's known to 
work. 

H the Amiga checks out as OK. the 
problem is with the modem. As I'm nol 
sure which modem you're using, -I can't 
give you any specific advice as to 
procedure in making it work but here’s a 
tail ol general advice, It it's an automatic 
modem try typing AT and hitting Ihe 
Return key. 

This should bring the response 'OK' 


rf your modem is Hayes' compatible. 
Hayes compatibility is the industry 
standard tor automatic modems. If this 
doesn't work and there are various 
switches and controls on the modem, Iry 
the various possible combinations ol ihe 
switches while attempting to conned 
with an on-line service, 

The sort of controls that you can 
expect to find on a manual modem are 
answer'pngmate. baud rate and on-liine. 
To dial up a service you should p*ck an 
appropriate baud rate tor that service, 
select originate and manually dial Ihe 
number. When it answers and you hear 
the modem squeal' on ihe phone, select 
the on-line control and then replace the 
phone..IF all is well, you should gel the 
log on screen from Ihe remote service If 
you gal garbage on the screen, check 
that your baud rate a no protocols are sot 
correctly. (A good place to start is 
generally 1200/1200 baud rate and 8N1 
tor a protocol, set in the software.) 

Hard driver 

I have a problem getting my printer 
to work with my AMfl.The printer 
to an Olivetti JP1Q1 - what driver 
does it need? Olivetti cannot 
(won't) help me. tt didn't come with 



^ GEM problem 

I recently purchased a Trigen Model 66'e from UK Home 
Computers and up to now have been very pleased with 
It. Shortly after buying it i bought an old copy of Finesse 
DTP (VERT,1 Ihe AMS version], with this came GEM*. I 
had no problem i n setting up, but lately I have come 
across a major problem, this to that the screen goes 
completely yank after only a short time in use {between 
36 seconds and five minutes). This happens In the 
desktop and In Finesse and Psion’s Gem Easel The 
blanking is only reversible by a complete power shut off 
the system unit, 

It al so happens on a couple of PD games that I 
recently acquired. \ have installed Gem more tfian once 
lo make sure that the set-up to Cornel and to-in Hercules 
graphics mode. Sometimes the screen does not dear at 
all and the remnants of Ihe mouse pointer and menus 
are left on the screen until the system crashes 
completely. 

Please help as \ am a poor and broke A level 
student trying lo do an A level In computer science. 

Robin Clayton, Carlisle. 



* TV# iwri torn# iimftwofi utility baton th§ Trig m K wfO 
hon&* grtiphks appEmtim Be Ernes is. 


Wo spoke to Ron Gladwto at UK Home computers and he 
confirmed our suspicions. The computer that you bought 
wasn’t intended as a graphics machine (as you need lor DTP 
programs Irke Finesse) The display standard for the monitor 
and display i$ MDA. However, all is not lost. UK Home 
Computers have access to a shareware program that should 
allow you to set up your machine to run a mono emulation of 
the CGA graphics mode. Give them a ring or? D792- 695034. 


a manual so 4 cannot even use a 
PD Driver Creator because t do not 
know the escape codes. 

Andy Reeves., Rotherham. 

According to Olivetti, ihe printer that you 
have supports the Epson standard so il 
you try installing the various Epson 
drivers in preferences (instructions on 
how to do this in the manual). 

Try each ot the Epson drivers (and 
any others that you fancy) until you get 
the one that gives the best result with 
your printer. 

Free Gift 

Following y our notice In Issue 1 ZB 
I enclose a small program that I 
have written and wish to place In 
the Public Domain. I enclose 
listings where appropriate and 
have Inducted some comments on 
the program below, if you run Ihe 
program you will note that l have 


































































































SHOPPING EXPRESS 33 


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described the game as charily- 
warn. Ttits means lhat whilst there 
Is no obligation oft anybody to do 
anything (as in. true Public 
Domain^ I have used the 
opportunity 1o advertise a very 
worthwhile local charity. If anyone 
feels that the game merits It I 
request a do nation to my local 
RSPCA Animal Shelter. 

The game Is written In 6502 
Assembly language using an 
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magazine In 1995. As the 
assembler can handle a maximum 
source code size qf 29 K which 
results In an object code ot around 
4 K, the program is In the term of 
several small modules. 

Richard Jones , Sheffield. 

I've resisted the urge to print the entire 
listing as we wouldn't have enough 
pages in the magazine. However, we 
gratefully aocept 'll tor the Tech Tips 
proggy hole and took forward to seeing it 
up and running. Your 'Charity donation 
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organisation. May I suggest that you 
oiler the program to a shareware library 
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your choice of charity. 

Laser patch 

Unfortunately my tip regarding 
patching the Amiga Preferences 
HP La ear Jet driver was printed 
wrongly In ybur magazine - one of 
Ihe bytes was felt cull Here are (he 
bytes to look for and ihe changes 
to make as well as a detailed 
description of how to do so. 
Original E59QQQ81 
Patched E7 90 90 91 
To do Ms using the Public 
Domain hie editor NewZap load the 
driver by typing its full path name 
in the Fifespec string gadget, eg. 
dhO: 1 'devs , priniliers'hp_lasefj«t. in 
common with most other file 
editors NewZap displays two 
distinct window sections. The 
larger display depicts byte values 
in Hex while Ihe smaller one 
displays corresponding ASCII 
characters, you can edit either by 
clicking the mouse within one of 
the sections and moving about 
with the cursor keys. 

To get to sector 10 offset 15E, 
click on the upward p&Jnllng F 
arrow in the GOTO requestor and 
keep doing so until the Currenl 
Sector reads HJ. Now click the left 
mouse button while the pointer Is 
over the Hex editing window. Edit 
Mods should now read Hex. It only 
remains to locate offset 15E. This 
is located 11 fines down from the 
top, move the cursor there and 



Using TV tuners s videos, NIC AM boxes and other TV related 
equipment wfth computers can be confusing when the TV 
defector van calls. Here's one teller to try and otear the 
muddy waters.,. 

Keeping in tune 

What Is a TV receiver? For what It’s worth, here is my 
opinion. My only qualification Is some 40 yea^ orf radio 
as a hobby and licensed lor about 25 years, 

t would class any equipment as a TV for licence 
purposes as any equipment that is capable of receiving 
a TV signal end making use of the video content ot that 
signal to provide a visible picture either at time of 
transmission or to store the video content for lulure use. 
! would class a single digitised frame of a TV picture es 
making use oi the video content- 

A colour licence t would consider needed it the 
equipment is capable oi processing the video signal to 
provide RGB components and display these as a odour 
picture or store them lor reproduction at a later date as a 
colour picture. Again I consider a digitised frame if 


displayed or stored as RGB Is charged as a colour 
receiver. A tuner providing composite video end RGB If 
only connected to a black and while monitor or storing 
only a single b & w digitised frame could be possibly 
classed as a bSw receiver. However If a colour monitor 
Is also available it could be difficult to prove. 

M Perry, Kidderminster. 


I'm not sure ihal you're correct, but you're heading in (he right 
direction, Mo doubt the chaps at the TV licensing office in 
Bristol will have something to add to the debate. 



* Whm koWmtvTV? Hoorn stmi to kimt for art „ 



press Ihe right arrow key until the 
Cursor pos Indicator (top right) 
made i SE - ihe byte under the 
cursor should be £7. Simply type 
in the new values as Indicated 
above and select the save gadget 
when you am certain you have it 
right (there is an undo leatune 
which can be used before ihe save 
H you mistype). 

Anonymous 

Whoops, we seem to have got your tip 
right this time, but Express 's lightning 
typist overshot your name and address 
and left us wilhoul a clue to your true 
identify since we have also lost your 
original letter. Keep trio lips coming thick 
and fast and well redress the balance. 


Memory saver 


Here'S a tip for Professional Page 
users (and indeed any other 
memory hungry packages). 
Redirect printer output before 
running the program, by double 
clicking on the CMC icon In the 
Uhl Hies drawer in Workbench. If 


you have the memory to spare 
accept the default destination 
RAM: (look at tooltypes in the into 
screen) and prl nt the fife alter 
leaving Pro Page by copying life 
tike to the PAR:etev(ce ie 


copy <tilename> par 
This fels you cany on working 
In Pro Page much quicker, doesn't 
hog valuable memory (Pro Page 
seems to require a loi of memory 
to prim a file, if memory Is a 
problem redirect print tile to disk 
by changing defaults in toofiypes), 
and just aboul allows you to use 
another package while the file la 
printed in the background at a later 
stage. This note was written in 
Pretext white priming a hail Mb fife 
produced in Pro Page, Print time 


was just over lour minutes In total 
(approx two mins in Pro Page and 
15 mins from ihe GLI) on an 
Epson GQ5OQ0 laser at 300dpi, 

Ian Moran, Betfast 

At the risk ot an almighty groan: Thanks 
tor Ihe memory .J 



Soldering on 


Just a couple of questions (hat 1 
would find most helpful if 


gnswersd in your colcumn■, 

1) With regards to the advice 
offered In Clreufi City (Issue 130) 
about connecting the Amsirad 
monitor to the Amiga,'SI. Does Ihe 
advice refer to the odour monitor 


or the green screen'? tilt's colour 
what should be done with (he 5V 
DC power cable? 

2) Is them any way that an external 
cassette recorder can be 
connected to the CPC 464. I have 
tried unsuccessful^ to solder an 
output and Input jack to the circuit 
board connections or play end 
record head, Any help? 

Matt, Mtttvn Keynes. 


1) It was the colour monitor and we did 
nothing with the DC power cable in case 
we warned to use the monitor with a 
CPC again 

£) No. It's a daft idea and you shouldn’t 
have attempted it anyway. If ihe CPC 
(ape is pooped. CPC Components in 
Preston should be able to supply 
replacement parts. 


Null modem 


At home we have an Amiga 500 
and cur next door neighbour has 
m Atari ST. We both perform 
various offices in local committees 
and clubs and help each other with 


typing and cataloguing, 

About a year ago, we both 
bought a mortem and comms 
software and used the serial port 
and our wonderful system X 
exchange to pass files act sss, 
commitees and clubs have 
become busier and »e can now 
spend up to two hours a day on¬ 
line. 

Both machines stay on-line ail 
the time and we've even installed 
dedicated phone lines and hosl 
software so that we can operate 
each other's machines remotely. 

My son pointed out that as 
both machines were (n rooms 
backing on to each other (we both 
live In a pair ol semis), maybe we 
could drill the wall or run a cable 
through (he wi ndow frame and 
con necl Ihe modems back to 
back, This way we will cut down on 
the phone hills (and perhaps pay 
lor the holes we have to have 
dri lled by a trades man. 

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Your son is quite right when he nedions 
that you cm save money with a direct 
link. You oould be in for a greater saving 
than you think (hough. 

Trie purpose of a modem is to 
MODulate and DEMpdulate the digital 
signals Irani the serial pod into an audio 
signal that Telecorn’s lines can carry, 
(Thai's how it gol the name modem). 

For short distances by direct wire, 
(he modems can be done away with and 
a simple cable can connect the machines 
through the wall The cable that does (his 
job is known as a null modern cable and 
can be purchased from most computer 
retailers tor a few pounds. Assuming (hat 
you intend to keep the hole in ihe wall 
down lo a minimum size, it will probably 
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375496. evenings. 

ATARI 5295TFM. 1 meg Discovery 
pad?, also £300 + games + word 
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£250O.n.O. 071 473 1904. 


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drives + some software £320. ST 
colour monitor £70 Tel 071 566 6155 
eves. 

ATARI STE, one meg. Guaraniieed 
until july 20 + cover disks and 
magazines. Loads of PD games, midi 
etc. Plus 14“ colour TV. Absolute 
bargain at £295 Tel. (0706) 647613 
quick! 

ATARI ST one meg upgrade, two one 
meg drives 1064 colour monitor, 40 
original games, many magazines with 
disks ST User, Format’, etc. £300 
o n.o. Several joysticks. Tel. 081 501 
2620 

FOR SALE external Alan ST 1 meg 
3.5" disk drive. 1 month old. boxed 
with manual £45 o n.o. Chris (051) 
521 5633, after 4pm. 


4 MEG STE. CM&S33, colour JET 
132. EXT T meg Triangle, clock, 
Naksha , 350 + disks, serius + 
menus, 6 Poxes, 150 magazines, 
leads, nearest offer of £950 takes 
away. Phone 0202 420662, Move 
Torces sale, 

ATARI 1040 STE 4 meg £399, 48 
magazines (ST World, ST Format 
and ST User),. £10. Pace Linnet 
Modem, £90. Phone Andy (043&) 
682121. 

ATARI 1Q40STFM 40Mb hard drive, 
clock, momo monitor, iMb external 
drive, Hi-Soft Basic saved? Neo Desk 
3, Timeworks DTP, RrstwordX. k- 
Data. Cadaverh. boxed as new with 
documentation £700 o.n.o. Walford 
266073. 

Atari 520 stem 1 meg drive, plus 
software, tncl F19. Timeworks, 
Wordwriter wp. joystick, disk bon etc. 
£250. Ail very good condition. Tel: 
0562 666054 (Luton). After 6pm. 


ATAHl 520 STEM, one meg internal 
drive, one meg external drive, loads 
of magazines with cover disks, £700 
+ software, mouse, joystick, plus 
extras. 14 months old. mint condition 
£330. Tel. 051 327 2616. 

ST GAMES for sale. Please send 
SAE lor list- Les Bessant, 186 
Brinkburn Avenue. Gateshead, Tyne 
and Wear. NE8 43 X. I tan also offer 
help with Sozobon C and Gulham, 

ATARI ST.'STE PD, + Slen issue 3. 
DTP, WP, Art and Clip Art only. Disk 
catalogue issue 2.1 out now. Send 
disk + SAE to; Typecast PDL, 31 
Hartfield Crescent, West Wickham, 
Kenl. Disk + SAE for Sten issue 3. 

STE SIMMS lor sale upgrade 
52Q5TE to 1 meg. Phone Willie (Fiat 
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SA£ for list. (Includes FSP Wordup 
Jackfonl). To Antony Cleafl, Eastmere 
House, Eastergate Lane, West 
Sussex P02Q 6S. All originals and 
boxed. 

ATARI 520STFM 1/2 meg drive and 
memory, Boot switch Tilted, comes 
with over £160 of software. Excellent 
condition, £150. Wanted, Telephone 
Paul on (041) 429 5629. (Glasgow). 

ATARI 520 STE, with joysticks, 
magazines +- lots of original software, 
Inc 25 games, Hyperpaint, STGS, 
P-D. etc, Good condition wi-th 
manauls. Sell for £275. Phone 0369 
49&0. Ask for Liam. 

MASTER5QUN0 sampler for the ST. 
hardware, cable, manual and 2 tree 
demos, Boxed and in perfect 
condition £30. inc p+p or swap for 
Amos. Tel: Rich on 0272 843241. 


FOR SALE \ Atari 520STFlVf wirh 
double sided drive, ail leads, mouse, 
joystick, £450+ games etc, All for 
only £275 quick sale needed. Gall 
Karl (after Spm) on (0293) 671438. 
Can organise deliveries if required. 

ST GAMES for safe. Altered Beast 
Kick Off, alf £5, Write to lee 
Wheel house, 1 Stafford Avenue, 
Costessey, Norwich, NRS GQF. 

ATARI STFM hard drive wanted. Pay 
up so £200 cash. Phone Steve on 
Portsmouth. (0705) 691364 with 
details afler 6pm. 

WANTED + disk drive interface, swap 
Turbo Dizer Digitiser for ST. Flai lig 
Mount Pleasant, Bracknell, Berks 
KG 12 3HS. Tel; 0344 666146. leave 
message on answer phone. 

ATARI laser £599. 60Mb hard disk 
£399, mono monitor £75. 091 590 
4448 


ROBOT MATHS (6-9 year olds) 

Two programs in on el On|y for the STI 

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SHOESTRING SOFTWARE 

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20MB HARD DRIVE for the Atari 
STE. desperately required. Must be 
perfect with no faulty sedors. £100 
maximum can be paid Haywood 
Milton Jnr 051 724 4647, afler 7pm 
weekdays onfy. 

TRIPLE X PD, Adult Public Domain 
for your ST, For free cataidgue send 
SAE to: Babak Ghazi. 3 Lansdbwne, 
Carlton Drive, Putney, London SWl 5 
2BY. Send us iists of your ST 
Adult''humOLir/vkjlent PDf 

PROGRAMS, games for ST, lor sale, 
Also blank disks, 50 wanted for 19.50 
plus 2.50 poslage. Wanted! Filgfax 
paper for printer al a reasonable 
price please! Swan PD programs, clip 
arts etc. Write. 3 'Crcssfieids' Station 
Terr, Dowlais Top Merthyr Tydfil 
CF46 3PU. 

ATARI 520 STFM wUh games, £160. 
Also Star LC-10C colour printer with 
cable £160. Both in immaculate 
condition. Teh (0269) 945626. Ask for 
Mia! (S. Wales).. 


PUBLIC DOMAIN, over 400 lop 
quality disks for |he Atari 5T/STE. 
Send 50p and SAE for disk catalogue 
and free PD to: N. Kfee, Jennl* PD. 
66 Abbey Road, Strood. Kent, ME2 
3QB. Disks available from 90p each. 

JENNIX PD (formerly Rivervjew PDs) 
woufd like lo apotogise fo anybody 
who contused our name with 
Riverdene PDL We have since 
changed name: and now sell (90a 
each), swap and buy 5T-PD Call 
(Nick) 0634 723659. 

ATARI mega 1st 20 meg hard disk 
second drive Lattice {Neo Desk 3 
Devpac ST isl Word Plus Falcon and 
lots more books, magazines. Boxed, 
all tor £550, Leon on 0631 602 184. 

ATARI mega 4 with At-Speed and QL 
emulators. Over 150 disks, 
magazines and guide books. Best 
offers over £900 will secure this great 
cutit, Tel: 081 889 4276 Tollenham. 
Have upgraded. 


WANTED FOR CASH V 

We buy/sell P/X & repair IBM's, 1 
Amiga, ST, etc.Working or not. 

DMR Electronics 
^ 0274 817889 or 881308 r 


ATARI 520 STFM, second disk drive, 
muitiface, joysticks, mouse. Well over 
£1,000’S worth pi software including. 
Captive, Cadaver, Dungeon Master, 
Sell for £250 o.n.o. Tel; Paul 0709 
898780. 


WANTED: disk drive for ST Must be 
double sided ar>d preferably Atari or 
Cumana with power pack, Musi be 
external! Offers under £30. Phone 
(O3302) 2435 weekdays, between 6- 
9m 


DTP.'WP art +elip art PD sollwaro for 
Atari ST/STE. Catalogue 2.2 out now. 
Alo games! Send disk +SAE to 
Typecast PDL, 31 Hartfieid Crescent, 
Wesi Wickham, Kent, BR4 9DW. No 
VAT on PD from typecasl PDL 

ATARI 520STFM 1 meg memory disk 
drive, games Including Captain 
Blood. Hard Driving. STOS, joystick 
mouse manauls. lots of PD. ST User 
magazines and disks. £250. Tel: 
Colin 031 441 7764 (evenings), 


520 STFM with software including Isl 
Wordplus and Superbase Personal 2. 
£200. SMI24 monitor £75 Star LC10 
£75 or the lot for £320. Phone 001 
556 0884 after epm weekdays or 
anylrme weekends. 

VI Dl ST. video digitiser tor ihe Atari 
ST complete with software and leads. 
Suitble for use wrlh any video lhat 
has a Scad socket Worm £90. Will 
Sell for £40. Mint condition. Steven 
HowletE, i Solva Road. Clase, 
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ATARI ST system clear out, mega 4. 
1040, hard disks 20, 30. 43, 65 meg 
155 meg tape streamer, Plotter 
HPGL. memory upgrade, Hi-rez 
monitor, colour monitor, 24PIN colour 
printer, graphics tablet. TQS 1.4 
Xerox 4020 Ink Jet printer,(0495) 
£72092. 

FOR SALE ST/E original software 
wijh iranauls. games: Aaargh, 
Gretsky's Hockey, Formula 1 Grand 
Prix, Skweek, EiD each. Borodino 
£12. K» Spread 3 £45 ST Basic £10. 
Phone Ronen Nooril. (08i) 455 0875. 


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AMIGA AS00. A501 RAM. second 
drive, mouse switch, mat cover 
bracket, £370 CBM A590 20Mb hard 
drive, iMb RAM, 10+ Mb utilities. 
PSLJ, boxed £350, Philips TV tuner 
for monitor, £50, All leads, manauis 
Neil 051 426 013B. 


VI□ 1 Amiga plus Vidi Chrome 
Digitizing hardware and software, Alt 
boxed In mint condition £00 o.n.o Tel 
(0925) 225422. after 6pm. Paul 

WANTED. Cheap copy ol Chuckle 
Egg for Amiga. Tel:Q285 651682, 
between 2-5pm. 

FOR SALE: half meg memory 
expansion for Amiga 500. Includes 
Cattery backed clack and calendar 
and lull filling instructions. £25. first 
come, first served! Write to: Adam 
Wright, 33 Great Holme Court, 
Tborplands, Morthampson, NN3 1 YD 

AMIGA PD software, educational, 
demos, music, horror, sound 
samples, utilities etc. 80p per disk. 
Catalogue disk with free PD and 
original software from BOpSOp. Chris 
Jackman. 3 Albion Terrace, Lex ham 
Road. Litcham, Kings Lynn. Norfolk, 
FE32 2QQ. 


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Populous.£3? 99 

Zany Golf-£37 

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John Maddens 

ILJS) Football..£37.03 
PGA Tou* Golf. .£37.99 
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me* Pttnd. . .£37 99 
Zoom.£37 99 

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AMIGA A590 hard drive, 2 months 
Old. Boxed as new with 512K 
upgrade. Fitted £230. Tel Andy, 
{Derby) 0332 3727B7 

WANTED, Amiga A500 +1/2 meg, 
2nd drive + s/w. Will swap Super 
Farm tom + Gradius III (Scan). also 
game gear, {no games) £65, both 
brand new. Please nng 0924 402430 
or 407919. Ask tor Steven 

COMMODORE Amiga, i meg. 
Cumana 2nd drive, prowrite, 
programs manual, worth £ 150+ loads 
of games, 2 joystciks, disks, Syncro 
Express 2. All worth £1200+. Sell lor 
£600. Call Ian on OBI B66 7152. NW 
London. 

A590 20Mb hard drive. Including iMb 
of RAM £295 o.n.o. Wanted XT 
bridge board!. Ring (061) SB r 5663. 

AMIGA games. Qrakktien. Treble 
Champions, £5 each. Edition one 
compilation £&. AM boxed. Back 
issues N.C.E.. Amiga computing, 
Amiga user etc, 65p- £1.10 includes 
postage. 0703 676949, aher 6.30pm. 

AMIGA Agnus B371 chip £15. 
kickstart 1.2 chip £10 Mouse and 
Tracy £10 + p+p. No offers. Tel Viper 
0473 713715, between 6-9pm only. 
Hello to Myself. 

AMIGA 500/2000 acceleration board 
66020 processor. 1Mb RAM (32bit)" 
'6MHz max speed 8 mips as new 
Ring Barry on 0642 252133 £350 
o.n.o. 

A1000 12000 Ccmcen 2Mb RAM 
expansion, luily populated with 
battery back up clock. Boxed as new 
with utilities disk. £150 o.n.o. Simon 
0B03 SI2452, Also contacts wanted 
on Amiga and 3D original games for 
sale. 

AMIGA games. Drakkhen, Treble 
Champions, £5 each. Edition one 
compilation £8 All boxed. Back 
Issues N.C.E.. Amiga computing. 
Amiga user etc. 65p- £i.10 includes 
postage, 0703 676949, after 6.30pm. 

AMIGA Agnus B371 Chip £15. 
Kickstart 1,2 chip £10 Mouse and 
Tracy £10 + p+p- No offers. Tel Viper 
[>473 713715, between 6-9pm only. 
Hello to Myself. 


AMIGA wanted, very good condition. 
Will swap Yamaha keyboard worth 
£150 plus Toshiba walkman worth 
£45. Tel 604 9293 (OBI). 

AMIGA A5QQ with modulalor. box, 
manauis and software. All in 
excellent condition £299. Telephone 
(0495) 272356. Also Rank Xerox 
4020 colour Inkjet printer. New end 
boxed. Cost £1700, 5 months 
ago .Sensible offers please. Tel 0495 
272358 

A5Q0 upgraded 1 meg nine months 
old, £20u + software, 3 Joystciks, 
mouse, mat software includes. 
Captive Infestation etc. Tel: 0434 
720353. Ask fdr Kevin, 

COMPLETE KIT1 Amiga 500 with 
1 Mb RAM 2nd drive plus Archimedes 
monitor, also original software £595 
o n.o, Also Atari STFM unboxed new 
£160 o.n.o. Also Amstrad PC 1512 
DDMM with Taxan printer £345 o.n.o. 
(0865) 790632, after 6pm please. 
(Oxford). 

AMIGA -A5O0 memory expansion, 
second disk drive. Lots of games. 
Amiga Format magazines and disks 
adull used only. Still £350. Very good 
condition. Phone after six. 0405 
720368. 

AMIGA PD utility disks t70+ disks, 
full of programs, art, music, games 
spreadsheet primers, you name it 
and I've got it! SAE to J Murray, 9 
Palace St, Ightahifl, Burnley, Lancs. 
BB12 SEA 

AMIGA A5D0 imeg includes joystck, 
mouse, mat, modulator, magazines, 
extension lead, many games 
including Speedbail 2, Chaos Strikes 
Back, Dungeon Master. Kick Off 
series and others. All excellent 
condition Worth over £750, Sell 
£450. Phone OBI 870 9965. 

AMIGA A5QD, A501 RAM, second 
drive, mouse switch, mat cover, 
bracket, £370 CBM A59Q 20Mb hard 
drive, 1Mb RAM, 10+ Mb utilities, 
PSU, boxed £350. Philips TV luner 
for monitor, £50. All leads, manauis. 
Neil 051 4260138. 

AMIGA A590 hard drive, 2 months 
old, Boxed as new with 512K 
upgrade. Fined £230. Tel Andy, 
(Derby) 0332 3727B7. „ 





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Every reply answered. 

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Format, suitable for DPamt eic. All 
disks are totally full and vims free. 
Quality media. £7.50 (0636) 71275 or 
write to: 96 Charles Street, Newark, 
Notts, NG24 1RL. 


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separate keyboard with excelent 
colour stereo. Amiga monitor worth 
£300. All lor £380 o.n.o. Amiga has 
51EK. Please contact (0705) 467756, 
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AMSTRAD PCI640 mono double- 
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AMSTRAD 1640 30 meg hard drive 
EGG EGA colour monitor, brand new. 
boxed £550 g.n.o Phone Gordon 
0256 7B060B. 

EPSCfcl PC (IBM COMPATIBLE), 
20Mb hard dish, user pack. 3 months- 
old. plus Olivetti DMiOO printer (still 
with 3 months on-site warranty). All 
boxed as new. must sell hence £500. 
Phone (0795) 872260. 

VINE MICROS PC TV to Scan 
adaptor CGA or EGA versions £15 
each. 12v power supply £5. B. 
Walton. 091 2372 329. 

AMSTRAD 1640 ega colour monitor 
30 meg hard disk 51.4 F/disk as new 
£600 o.ft.d. Plus p+p, 37 Devon 
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Tel: 0633 259647. 

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Serial printer etc from parallel port, 
with Gender changer and 5 melre 
serial cable £40. Including postage. 
Phone 0543 372341. 9-5pm, Ask for 
Mr. Timbrel I. Clearing other PC bits. 

AMSTRAD PC2086 VGA display 
30Mb hard disk 3172' floppy. Loadsa 
software, mega bargain at £550 
o.n.Q Contact' Lee. Eves and 
weekends on 061 519 6563 

AMSTRAD PCI512 colour, 2x 51/4" 
lloppys, 32Mb hard drive installed 
wiih Dos 3 3, software and logtech 
menu, logtech upgrade mouse. S.''w 
includes Supercalc 3. Buyer must 
collect. Phone (0753) 21650, Ask for 
David. Price: £550 o.n.-o. 


1640 AMSTRAD Isenstem expanded 
memory cars 2MG. E7S/LIM 
software. Working order £90. Sell due 
to upgrade to 366ST, Ring 0388 
520300, 

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condition unimportant-repairable. PC 
compatible. Also considered. Can 
collect it necessary. Phone Mike. 
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206 AT 100% compatible. 2M6G5. 
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Software etc. £925 O.n.o. 0253 
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AMSTRAD PPC 64009 portable, 
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PSU with leads, modem, carry case, 
software and manuals, plus external 
monitor. Phone (0746) 834914 
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AMSTRAD CPC 6128 and colour 
monitor with tape drive. Some 
software, joystick, manual. £240 
o.n o Wynn Rees. Eves, 9962 
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FOR SALE. Amstrad CPC 464, with 
Light Gun, 250+ games, with word 
procasing, sohware worth £600+. Sell 
£350 o.n.o, TeL 001 574 4789 


64C with ioads of mega games inc 
Robocop 2, 5.G.I. Creatures to name 
a few plus) Graphic and music 
packages and magazines. All in good 
condition lor a bagain price of £180, 
buy it! Tel-0831 323460. 

BGPL Introducing BCPL is a 
comprehensive guide to the language 
on the Amstrad CPC. which covers 
all areas, For more delails, send a 
SSAE to David Wilson, 37 Crowder 
Close, Longley, Sheffield S57NW. 

AMSTRAD CPC464 with disk drive, 
mono monitor, TV modulator, 
muttiface, 100+ games on tape disk, 
sg Rainbow stands, Mini Office, many 
magazines, books, joystick, excel lent 
condition. Bargain only £200- Phone 
after 6pm. (0489) 61253. 

FOR SALE Atari 80DXL computer 
and 1059 disk drive. All manuals and 
leads. Disk and cartridges cheap tor 
quick sale. Will split or package 
Telephone William On 0B2O6 62777 
9 To 5pm. 

AMSTRAD CPC 464, stereo 
speakers, speech synthesizer, £350 
worth ol games, joystick, green 
monitor, TV modulator, manual and 
blank tapes. £190. Phone Biackbum, 
(0254) 660651. 

SPECTRUM 40k, £4.59+ worth of 
software, two joysticks, dalacorder, 
all worth well over £500. Will take 
£150 o.n.o. or swap for a colour 
moniior for PC. Coniacl me on (0945) 
772870. 

SPECTRUM +3 disk -drive + tape 
recorder over £409 worth pi software, 
All leads + manuals Excellent 
condition. Everything worth over 
£600. Bargain price £100, Phone 
0327 60351. 

AMSTRAD CPG6128 with colour 
monitor, tape recorder and lead, lots 
of software including Trivial Pursuit, 
Art Studio, Pawn, Hitch Hikers, and 
many others, AH originals everything 
as new Cosi £600. Will accept £250 
O.n.o. Tel: 9742 600659 


AMSTRAD 6f28 colour moniior and 
TV modulaiDr, excellenl condition. 
Plenty of disks games, tapes and 
magazines £250. Worth £500. For 
Quick sale. Tel: 0978 829840 

AMSTRAD 464, some games, 
Lightpen and graphics soflware. 
(Faulty) modem, no monitor or 
modulator hence £89 or make me an 
offer! Call John on (0232) 65B939. 
Excellent condition. Boxed with 
manuals Genuine reason ter sale. 

AMSTARD CPC 6128, colour 
moniior, two joysticks, tape-patch 
leads, multiface II + manuals, disk 
drive, £400 + software, hardware. 
Loads of multiface cheats supplied. 
Phone York 0904 412799. after 6pm 
Worth £1990+. will sell at bargain 
£490! 


SPECTRUM +2 with light gun, 
joystick and games. Phone 0734 
303191. Will deliver Reading area 
£90. 

12SK SPECTRUM with monitor, 
joysticks, printer interface, plus loads 
of games, £175. 22 Solway, East 
Tilbury, Essex, HM10 0RO, Tel: 
O3752 4013. 

COMMODORE 64C, fully boxed, 
greal ccmdrtion with £200+ worth ol 
briliant original software, Also inqfude 
Quickshot 11+ and (2N tape deck, 
bargain price at £100 Tel: (0909) 
568560 Dunnninglou, Sheffield, 
between 3.30pm and 9.30pm, 
Anyday, 

AMSTRAD CPC Software. All lop 
titles for just £3 each. For lull lisl, 
write to Wayne at 1QB Bury Road, 
Radclrffs, Manchester, M26 9LJX. 

3H DISK DRIVE fits BBC, Amstrad 
£25. Amstrad PCW main board (new) 
£25. Amslrad 1512 main board, £30 
Amstrad monitor,■' power supply board 
£39. Tel 0522 750846. 

AMSTRAD CPC 6128. colour, 3" disk 
drive, mullitace 2. tape recoder, 
computer desk, dust covers, 30 
games + manual, leads, 2 years 
worth A.A magazines. 20 disks. 
Otters around £375. Buyer collects. 
Tel: Dougie (0200; 814804, after 
3pm. 

AMSTRAD GPQ464 green screen 
monitor, comes complete with printer, 
music machine. Light Pen* Mini Office 
soflware, and Quickshot joystick, plus 
over two hundred pounds worth of 
games, Bargain at only £200. Tel 
021 784 9538. Calls after 5pm. 

CBM+4 PSU, datacas5ette, manuals, 
75+ software tapes. Bargain £60. VIC 
20, PSU, datacassette manuals, 59+ 
software tapes. Bargain £45 o.n.o 
Details Sieve OS 1 517 0772. 
evenings. 


SPECTRUM 48K, all leads, P5U. 
£49. Spectrum 48K + alt leads, PSU, 
£40. Spectrum 48K + all leads, pSu, 
£60. Spectrum 120K printer, £2Q. 
VTX 5900 modem, £20. Microdrives 
£10 each. LF one £25. Details Sieve 
061 517 6772, evenings, 

2X +2 with joystick and loads ol 
games. £t00 o.n.o. Tel: (0244) 
818530, Ask for Richard, 

FD1 3 fc ' second drive for CPC6128. 
£55 C.'VV lead. Evenings or 
weekends. Phone 03224-46340 or 
write to Mr. I. Emmerson, 16 
Fremantle Road. Belvedere, Kent, 
QAT7 6ES. 


R.J. COMPUTERS 


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Twcety Boards (stereo wKirid 
for the Aran STFM 
Drive-master (■spilth between 
2 external drives} 
£!i5& cadi 


LIMITED OFFERS 1/2" disks 
ftom 4Ip each 
Atari 520 STE- TnrbuPiurk. 

ns*. 

?20STFM Discovert Pack (779, 

We Stock many nett it at competitive price'. Postage £5 lar^e or £i small items. 


Star LClOiUtf 
Star LC2001235 line tables} 

Amiga A500 Screen Genu 

130 


30 VVestbourne Road, Omnium], \\ ristuL Telephone 0272 5663*9 


GW BASIC 


vV Speed up your completed programs > 

2 pence a lint: I'Lfi minimum! inc P&P 

Send nour disk(s) with a copy of your GW Basic 
program (any PC format) and payment to 

Jackal! ComputmjLt Limited 

73 Lyndon Avenue, Blackf-en, Siacug, Kent, DA 15 8RL 

Enquirers 081-850-7258 

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HE-RUN fanzine for the Spectrum, 
BBC and ZX8l. Fitly pence incl 
p&p,to 1 Norlholme Close. Grays. 
Essex, RM16, 2NX. "A varied, 
amusing, unbraised, and rather nitty 
Fanzine Yours Sinclair, June 1991. 

C64 ORIGINAL sofiware auction, 
many titles for catalogue. Send SAE 
to Michael Vainola, 5 Woodside 
Cottages. Highwood, Chelmsford, 
Essex, CMl 3RD. Also wanted C16 
+ original software and hardware. 
Send list to above address for my 
best offer. 

SPECTRUM disk system. -12SK 
compuler with Disciple interface 
(disk. printer, joystick pods) 3.5 inch 
drive, leads and disks. Hemel 
Hempstead. (0442) 60516. Phone 
evenings only and offer £120. 


CPC612B, green with manual, tape 
lead, 3 blank disks. £140 more sluff 
ny negotiation. Call (033 85) 43fl or 
write. 2 Town Mead, Qakford, Devon, 
EX16 9EW. 

COMMODORE 1 28 complete 
system. Disk drive, printer, 
datacassette, all with Operators 
manuals, plus dust covers, Also 
loads of software (disks and tapes). 
Too much to list £350 tor more 
details. Phone 0235 054886 quick 
safe. (GIds). 

CBM 64 1 good condition, wiiti new 
slimline base, complete with 
datacassette, power pack, manuals, 
joystick, joyball and £lOQ worth of 
software, £85 o.n.o. Contact Mark 
(021) 382 2634 after 4,30pm or write 
to: 57 King Road, Erdington, 
Birmingham, >EJ23 7SN. 



AMIGA 


A1500 



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jaa?' 


& 

with 

VideoStudio _ 

without monitor £685 
with monitor £935 


Cenlcjcks = A&802 + Switch Box - £189 
Switch box + lead - XAd 

You name it, we sell iff 

MMriv 


AMIGA 500 

£369 

with i Meg of Ham 



_KRT VIDEO 

n/itlji <t*>oaax *»•««>. 71 Glenfall, \ate, 

U454l Secundnand StKXslor sale. Call for pnoe. Bristol liSlT 4L\ 


COMM64 tape drive, disk drive 
1541, monitor 1701. Joystick over 
£200, Disks and books. Mini OHrce 
N, Pools program and others plus 
extras. Quick sale £300 o.n.o. 0344 
422307. 

SPECTRUM + excellent condilion 
comes with two data recorders, 
television, £700 worih of software, 
interface, joystick, books, 
magazines, spare power supply and 
leads. Tons of disks, only £275. 
Phone 0908 643189. 

SPECTRUM 48 in stonechip 
keyboard. Beep amplifier, on/oft key 
Load'save switch, small footprint, 
with 10 tapes £40 Call (039 85) 438 
or write A Jones 2 Town Mead, 
Oflkford, Devon, EX 16 9EW. 


♦ CONSOLES 


ATARI Lynx for sale. California 
games and blue lightening cats! Firs! 
£50. secures or will swap for Amiga 
hardware, Wanted HST modem. 
Cash waiting. Tel: 061 962 6377. 
Before 6pm. Voice after that on my 
BBS. 

NINTENDO Ne? Turtle pack, brand 
new, unopened. £60. Megadrive carts 
from £15T Phone 0403 61899 eves 
and weekends. 

MEGA DRIVE for sale, si ill has box, 
includes 5 top games, like Mickey 
Mouse and Gnoug £200. Rhone 
Michael after 5.30pm on (0742) 
335555. 


FM Stereo On These ST Products 


The Monster Stereo Cartridge_£24.99 

With the TCB-Tracker.£35.00 


Or with Wings of Death.£35.00 

(comes with free T-shirtj 
Or all three for only.£42.50 



COMPUTES 

SPECIALISTS LTD 


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ALL DISKS 
£1,50 


STUPID FLOWER PD 


All disks are of 
the Sided 
variety double. 


Captain Golden Nugget Volume 1: 35 PD programs to dribble over 

on one disk only £1.50 


See review in last weeks PD column 
Send a blank disk for a mouth watering vast canyon-like disk catalogue to: 

STUPID FLOWER PD, 3 Read Mead, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 8DN 


M EGAD RIVE UK version, extra 
joypaef, Japanese convener, tour 
ames, lols ol magazines eic. £200 
hone (0734) 4D287G. 

MEQ GEO for sale £300 or swap for 
Super Famrcom or PC Engine GT 
and game gear hand holds. Quick 
swap needed Tel 0273 775291, 

SUPER FAMICOM (Scarf) plus two 
games gnwanled gift £250 o.n.o, 
Phone Colin 051 60S 0410. 

SEGA MASTER system plus with 
Light Phaser, Hang on and safari 
Hunt includes two control pads £75 
O.n.o, Tel: (0674) 74600. 

NINTENDO Donkey Kong JR. One 
ear old, like new. It's yourg tor |ust 
12, Contact Richard (051) 678 8268. 

PC ENGINE (PAL) 18 games (worth 
over £500) 4 player aaaptor, joypads. 
£250 (boxed). Phone (.0748 834014 
(alter 6pm). 

ATARI LYNX plus three games 
including Ktax and Gauntlet, only 
three menlhs old with F5U and two 
player lead. £130 call Simon on 0394 
450733 for details, 


6 PRINTERS 


OKI MATE 20 colour printer )IBM) 
parallel output, boxed, software, two 
ribbons, £75. Tel: Woking (0483) 
764857, 

OKIMATE 20 colour primer, compiele 
with paper ribbons, software and 
printer lead Hardly used, excellent 
condition, £60 o.n.o. Tel: 0243 
642917 Antony. 


24 P(N printer canon A60g good 
condition. £10Q. Phone 031 443 0185 
evenings. 

CITIZEN 2 colour DMP Commodore 
comptible VSC20/64ETC. Also 
Binaione Upright data recorder, both 
as new. Oilers welcome. Ring 
Graham 0602 625649. 

BROTHER I709 r wide carriage 
printer As new £199 plus p+p. 37 
Devon Place. Newport, Gwent. NP9 
4 MW, Tel 0633 259847. 


♦ MONITORS 


IBM enhanced colour daisy display 
(EGA) model No 5154. Very good 
condition £110 o.n.o. Phone Tony 
after 5pm on Southampton, (0703) 
332307, 

MONO monitor for Amatrad P.P.C. 
Sinclair S-12MM professional series 
with its own power Supply. Hardly 
used. Very good condition, £5C I wiN 
post, it you pay posiage Tel Leeds 
(0532) 401575. 

AUVA biaqk and White monitor, plus 
Hercules card lor PC. £60. Phone 
081 657 0725, 

MONO monitor tor Amslrad CPC 
464, £45 including postage and 
packaging. Tel: D443 791 598. 


♦ MODEMS 


SIM 2400 modem with Amiga, lead 
and software, £100. Coniact Chris 
(0283) 40053, 


AMSTRAD LQ35DO printer. Hardly 
ever used- Good condition with box 
and Mini Office II, £170 o.n.o. Original 
disk cassettes lop titles, for E15Q 
O.n.o. Worth over £400. Ring 0245 
491827 evenings, 

COMMODORE MPSBOT TER 
wanted. Reasonable price paid any 
education 51-4 disk wanted, not 
public domain, Reasonable price 
paid. Write to: 4 Mill St, Delves Lane, 
Consett, Co- Durham, DH6 7AQ.. 

EPSON LQ1500 24 pin printer with 
sheet feed £225 plus postage- Tel: 
Newport <0633) 266647 evenings. 

LASER printer, good condition, £475. 
Tel:081 995 0316. 

NEC P22QO 2A PIN DMP, Good 
condition, boxed. Epson and IBM 
compatible. Sell or swap for ST 
hardware eg. Hard disk or 
supercharger. Any offers? Phone 
(0332) 367642. 

CANON LBP4 laser printer 1 meg 
extra memory nearly new £625. 
Am&trad 1 640 ECD DO +30 
megabyte hard card. Excellent 
condition £500. Phone 061 894 4324. 

WANTED daisywheel type printer for 
A500 must be excellent condition. 
Cash Waiting, Please Tei (0782) 
533016. 


DUMB MODEM. 1200/1200 (hall) 
1200/75 (full) 300/300 full 
Auiodial/auto answer, with 25 way 
RS232- Ideal for new comma 
enthusiets. Only £38 including 
modem, lead. Atari ST software and 
p+p, Cali Nick any evening: 0634 
723659. 


♦ SOFTWARE 


SPECTRUM adventure and arcade 
adventure games for sale All original 
prices from £i to £2, or make me an 
offer. SAE for list to Simon. 127 
Somersei Road Knowle, Bristol, BS4 
2JA. 

WANTED Tomahawk 3" disk for 
Spectrum +3 computer. Phone Dover 
(0304) 202530. 

WANTED "Amiga- Fax" 

hardware/software For Amiga 500 
phone <0726)66919. 

AMIGA games, magazines, demos, 
dozens of magazines, Robocop 2, 
Golden Axe, Super Mtonaoo GP, Kick 
Off 2 r demos: Lemming Shadow 
Dancer Gods etc. Worth £200. Sell 
lor £105 or swap for 7 Gameboy 
games eg, W W.F. Phone Simon 
0909 731212. 
























































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XPRESS SALES 


ORiGNAL ST games: Midwinter, 
Space Quest III, £15 each. Millenium, 
Borodino, Corruption, Lancelot, 
Suspect, Fowerdrome £ 10 aaclh. 
Cheque.'P.G. to Chris Cornwell-, 
Badger Inn, Church Minshuil, 
Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 6DY. 

SHAREWARE lor Windows, 
hundreds of titles. Games, screen 
giihies. disk, file. Memory utilties, 
Icon Editors etc. El disk +p+p. Send 
SAE lor list, 37 Devon Place, 
Newport, Gwenl, WPS 4NW. Tel 0633 
259847. 

SWAP Ihe great Hisoft C and C 
Breeze Editor lor Devpac 2sl. Also 
Swap PCI 5 12DD for ST hand disk or 
other hardware (Phone). Also games 
for a resource editor, Phone Peter 
alter 6pm on (0484) B65020. 


AMIGA PDI I'll swap any ol my 300 
disks for two blanks, or Trade PD for 
PD. Send blank tor disk catalogue. 
David Hopkins. 23 Penmead Road, 
Delabole. Cornwall, PL33 9AT 

ATARI public domain software, 
hundreds of disks. Very targe 
collection ot music and midi software. 
Send SAE plus £1.00 for disk 
catalogue. OBI 959 3436. Write to 
153 Silkstraam Road, Burnt Oak, 
Edgware, Middx, HAS QD6 

AMIGA SOFTWARE (original only) 
Kick Olf + Extra Time, Micropose 
Soccer, TV Sports Foolbalt. Millenium 
£.2 plus lots more. Bargains from £2 - 
£8 Phone Steve on Portsmouth 
(0705} 691384. 


Atari ST Shareware 


Serious about PD Sc Shareware? 

Then the new Goodmans Spring/Summer International 
Shareware Guide is fur you, and is available now, 

Packed with reviews, screenshots and descriptions of all the 
latest titles, and as we now incorporate the Official STOS 
Shareware service, we also include the new STOS User 
Supplement, and our Exclusive Software Supplement 

For your copy send £1.95 to: 
Goodman Enterprises, 16 Conrad Close, Mcir 
Hay Estate, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. ST3 1SW 
Tel: (0782) 335650 - Fax (0782) 316132 


POOLSMASTER pools predictor tor 
Amstrad CPC (on tap) £12 including 
oslaga and packing. Tel' 044$ 79 1 
96, 

POWERMONGER, Legend Of 
Faerghail £14 each. Xenomorph, 
demos Winter and Drakkhen £10 
each, Also other games. All originals. 
Phone Paul on 0709 B96760, 

MUSIC-X midi sequencer and date! 
midi interface (1 in, 1 thru, 3 outs) 
£50. Also or T's Roland D-HO editor, 
£50. Tel Andy (051} 336 6657. 

AMIGA PO over 300 Titles 75p per 
disk including p+p. Send SAE, for list 
to Pete Smith, 10 Linden Rise, 
Bourne. Linos, PE1D 9TD, 

AMIGA software: "A - Talk Plus" 
owgrtul comms package 
ommunicats with bulletin boards 
elc. Requires Amiga with 512K. Cost 
£80. New and boxed, only £25. Tel. 
001 445 6144. 


ATARI ST software (qngnais for sale. 
Ninja Remix. Voodoo Nightmare. 
Sporting Triangles, Airborne Ranger, 
Venos Flytrap, plus Mope. Bargains 
from £2 - £8. Phone Steve on 
Portsmouth (0705) 691384. 

GOT some disks you want rid of? 
Then sell them to me! Second hand 
■or new 3.5' disks only. Offers to Rich, 
41 Pinner Park Gardens, Harrow, 
HA2 6LQ May swap tor my originals! 
(games). 

AMAZINGLY Cheap, second hand, 
working, original games are avaiibe 
Irom Bormans PD.Also PD tor 40p 
Are you joined’ It not, why not? Disk 
+ stamped SAE ip: Burmans PD, 41 
Pinner Park Gardens, Harrow. Middx, 
HA2 6LQ. 

AMSTRAD 3 H disk's (Amsift-CF2) r 
box of len £15. Bulk orders welcome. 
Phone Dave on 0705 552940. 


AMIGA 


s A50Q Base rise* . £30549 

A500 3a*- Pack * RAM £329.99 
A59Q Ease Pft±+ External 3-5* D™e..£340.05 
A500 BaK + 5m. Sam + Disk Owe.. .070 90 


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. £0 40 

. .£0.30 



10645 M‘ £orjjf MCf.-tcr 
51 Ek Ram Expansion . .. .... 
Extant 3 5 - Driv* .,. 


..£ 5 ) 49.99 
, £30 95 
£ 54.95 


3 . 3 ' 

5.35* DSDDDrds.. 


3 5* PC Capacity Disk. B<». .£5 72 

5.S5* 100 Capacity Disk Bex.£S4£ 

Ptease phene (X write tons fuH price Il5t 



9 Cwjk Road, Millom, Cumbria, LAIS 4JIL 
Phone 0229 772998 24 Hrs 

Send an order with cheque or Postal Order, Please allow 5 working 
da vs for clearance. Add £3-50 for 3 Day delivery. 

Add £ 10.00 for Next Day delivery. 


FOR SALE Atari software family 
■curriculum G.G.3.E. Revision 
Module, Juniour School Module, 
Pay,'Learn Module. Offers or will 
exchange for games. Anything 
considered. Tel: 0949 831206 Mike, 

JAY-DEE'S PD for the Amiga, only 
4Qp a disk for catalogue. demo's and 
games. Send disk and SAE to Jay- 
Dee's, 389 Scalby Road, Newby. 
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Y012 
6TG 

KICK OFF 2 with Final Whistle, £12. 
Precious Metal, £10. Amiga (Xenon 
II, £5. Balance Of Power 1990, ElQ. 
(IBM). All boxed as raw. Kasparov 
Computer Chess game, travel size. 
£10. Amiga joystick, £3. Refer Daryl 
Fareham. (0329) 235759, 

GAMES wanted for Amiga user 
would also like word processor 
software. Mrs Angela Ohara, 41 
Springmill Street, Bradford. BDS 
7EE, 


SAM COUPE game Famous Five, 
Five On A Treasure Island, fof sate. 
Brand new, nol used, £5, Phone 081 
942 8750. 

PC SHAREWARE Hackpack 
Unprotect your favourite games and 
business programs, £1 per disk 
+p+p. Regular updates. Send SAE 
lor list. 37 Devon Place, Newport, 
Gwent, NP9 4NW. Tel: 0633 259847. 



PC SHAREWARE, £1 disk +p+p over 
200Mb largest and best. Latest top 
Anglo American lilies Best value, 
send 2 first class stamps for easy 
menu driven catalogue disk. 37 
Devon Place, Newport, Gwent. NP9 
4MW. 0633 259847. 


SHAREWARE games for Wndows 3. 
Checkers Breakout Tetris, 
Mastermind Noughts and Crosses, 
Poker etc. £1 disk +p+p, Send SAE 
(or list 37 Devon Place, Newport. 
Gwent, NP9 4NW. Tal 0633 259847 


MAGAZINES for sale Express from 
Number onwards. Offers around £40. 
Ace 19 issues. 75p each, Zero 
numbers 1-20, £30 Various videos, 
also all excellent condition. Want 
details? Phone James. 0707 268374, 
between 4,15 and 5.30pm. 

ATARI ST/STE power pack games. 
All originals. Out nun, Gauntlet, alter 
burner, complete pack (Minus Double 
Dragon disk) in orignal case only 
£25, Call Nick any weekday, evening, 
after 7pm, on 0634 723659, 

400 SHAREWARE oisks to get nd ol 
51.4 25p each, plus postage some 
31/2 50p Ring 0404 891806. Also 
MFM. 20 meg hard disk £50. 7 200 
watt PSU £30'. Brand new many 
books at £2. 


SHAREWARE Zephyr for PC. 
Powerful driven menu database 
generator. Fasier than dbase with the 
power of Foxpro, Two disks £2 +p+p. 
Why pay more. 37 Devon Place, 
Newport, Gwent, MP9 4NW. Tel 0633 
259847. 

C64 games galore! £1- £5, games 
like Bateman, Untouchables, 
Operation Thunderbolt, Tape and 
disk. Also magazines, books, every 
issue of input, Interested? Send S AE 
to Steal, 4 Silver Firs, Newarthill, 
Motherwell, ML1 5TJ, 

ST PD wanied to swap. Send list to 
Hick, 58 Hillside Road, Sudbury. 
Suffolk, C010 6SA Definite reply to 
all. 







€64 games lor sale, both disk and 
cassette games ai good prices etc 
Send SAE to Rodney Fransz, 68 
Castlemaine Avenue, Gillingham. 
Kent, ME7 2QE. 

AMIGA orignais, new Psygnosis 
Monster Pack of Nitro Infestation 
Shadow Of The Beasl, £15. Gbilus + 
T-shirt, £15. Obitus £10. Awesome 
£10 Spellbound £7. Tel Norman 
0245 352538. 

ATARI soliware Hisoft Basic 
Inlerative compiler Wl.23, £25. 
Quantum Paint professional v2.Q 
plus F unlace, £15. Maxafii precision 
paper guide. Fits most printers, £12 
or will swap any of ihe above for PC 
soliware Tel: 001 869 4276 
Tottenham. 

PC LINE clip art img, or PCX. Formal 
on 31/2 disk. Houses, churches, 
windmills. SAE for more details to 60 
Martham Mill, Scarborough, North 
Yorkshire, YOU 3DG. 


♦ OTHER 


BLACK Phantom, radio control car. 
Indy Suspension 4 Wheel Drive,, two 
motors battery charger, big car, 
boxed, unwanted prize, ESO o.n.o. 
Oilers write Richard Kemp, 4B 
Currents Lane, Harwich, Essex, 
C012 3DE. 

YAMAHA PSS-620 digital 
synthesizer, 32 PCM drum sounds. 8 
drum padte, 100 preset sounds, 100 
acoompianments, midi in, out, +thru, 
boxed with manual, axcellent 
condition, complete wrth stand and 
PSU. £190 a.n o. Tel: 0633 612108, 
Paul evenings only. 

WANTED, Atari 1050 or 810 disk 
drive. Also Atari *Popaye’ cartridge. 
Tel: 081 693 4134 r 


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WESTLANDS PD 

Al l. THBSF DISKS + MANY MORE FOR 
ONLY £1 LAC M 


The VY&stiands, 14, Somerford Place, 
Willcnhall. W. Midlands WV13 3DT. 
Tel: 0902 606728 


DEMOS 

MUSIC 

UTILITIES 


DO 12 Anthrax 
MODS Power Pack 2 
U005 202 Utilities 


DC 3 3 Budbriiri 2 
M002 Slabby’s Music 
U004 Iniromakcr 


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NINTENDO 8 BIT. 5 games, 5Mb I 
+11. £95 Inc p+p. Rem ole control can 1 
unwanted prize, £80 PC Engine. 5 
games (boKod) £140. Also send SAE 
Hot C64 AMS tape, game lisls dirt 
cheap. Details so R. K. 4B Currents 
Lane. Harwick, Esse*; C012 3BE. 

ATARI Lynx lor sale, brand new, slill 
in box, complete with six games inc 
Blue Lightening and Slime World, 
only £150. Tel. 0604 751954. Mon-Fn 
9-5. Ask lor Paul. 


NINTENDO 8-BIT, 5 games, 5Mb I 
+11, £95 inc p+p. Remote control car 
unwanted prize. £60 PC Engine, 5 
games (boxed) £140. Also send SAE 
for C64/AMS tape, game lists dir* 
cheap. Details 1o: R. K. 4B Currents 
Lane, Marwick, Essex, CQ12 3DE. 

ATARI Lynx tor sale, brand new. still 
in box, complete with six games inc 
Slue Lightening and Slime World, 
only £150. Tel: 0604 751954. Mdn-Fri 
9-5, Ask for Paul. 


ADVENTURE PD< ST and Amiga. 
Games, maps, editors, solutions, etc 
All disks £1.50 inc pp Write, stating 
which machme, +SAE to: j.R, 
Barnsley, 32 Merivale Ro-ad.Riding 
Brook. Stafford, ST17 9EB (Mark 
envelope ST Or AM 1 ) 

ATARI 4QD’48K. tapes cartridges 
books £25 BQ0XI disk + happy tape 
mags etc. 8O0XL disk, page 6+ disks, 
sketches tape prinier buffer many 
disks. Taxan Monitor. Offers please 
E London 081 594 5768. 


VIDEO camera, Hltatchi HV-720 with 
lens C.C.T.V, survielance type, B-W, 
600 lines resolution, Standard 
composite video out put. 240V 
mams. Imaculate picture (as new), 
ideal for digitising, £55, Tel 061 796 
0456. 

YAMAHA TX81Z Multi Timbral Rack 
Synth £195 Q.v.n.o. Atari muMiface 
£25 . Pro printer for BBC 6 £20. Tel 
Scarborough, Yorks. 0723 362440, 
alter 6pm. 


ADVENTURE PD! ST and Amiga. 
Games, maps, editors, solutions etc. 
All disks £1 50 inc p p. Write, stating 
which machine, +SAE to: J.R. 
Barnsley, 32 Merivale Road Riding 
Brook, Stafford, ST17 9EB. (Mark 
envelope ST or AM!) 

ATARI 400,48K tapes cartridges 
books £25 80GXL disk + happy tape 
mags etc. 800XL disk, page 6+ disks, 
sketcher, tape primer buffer many 
disks, Tax an Monitor. Offers please 
E/London 081 594 5768. 

« 

TANDY 165Q portable chess 
computer, No manual. 9 levels £9 
Call (03985) 438 or write, 2 Town 
Mead, Gakford, Devon. EX 16 9EW. 
Also got chess books for sale. 

SWAP Technics Hi-Fi for Amiga or 
Casio Synth to swap for C64 disk 
drive. Tel: 0780 721 806. after 6pm. 
Ask for Glyrc. 

INSIDE Macintosh books or 
equivalent, Also any Apple Mac 
compilers or interpreters, including 
BBC Emulator. Tel 0925 50673 
(Warrington}, 

IDE 3.5"' 100Mb hard' driver for 
PC/AT. brand new £250, Contact 
Gary 071 700 6342. 

WANTED the following books for ST 
computers, Technical Reference 
Guides vqI-i VDf, vol-2 AES. vol-3 
TOS. Also programming ihe 6800 by 
sybex. Phone 081 698 1719. Ask for 
Male. 

TRtCGM LC14/230 Multiplexer, no 
manual, hence £40, Tel: 081 995 
0316. 

BROTHER, 3.5’ external floppy 
drive. S/S, battery powered, portable 
£25. Tel 081 995 0316. ■ 

ORIC user group - third meeting in 
Aylesbury, Sat July 13. Send SAE or 
phone evenings. Contact. Dave Dick. 
65 Barnard Cr„ Aylesbury. Bucks 
HP2t 9PW. Tel: 0296 26050. 


WANTED, large composite monitor 
(colour) m good working order. 
(Gameboy), Spectrum. G64, 
Amstrad, games wanted, tape or 
disk, cartridge. 31/2 blanks wanted, 
around 30p each. Phone Steve 
(0626) 72275, 6pm + 

ARCHIMEDES A30O0 owners watch 
itie skies, The Zelanties are coming! 
Prepare lor the onslaught. 

WANTED stackable disk boxed for 
31/2 disks. Amiga PD, to swap or 
self, sand SAE for list. Blank 3 hour 
tapes warned To: Steve. 26 Reeve 
Road. Holyport, Maidenhead. Berks. 
SL6 2LS. 

•» 

£5 REWARD My Olivetti M10 
doesn't have a manual andi | don't 
have a clue. Give me a ring and I'll 
pul money in the purse. Call W. 
Shakespeare on 071 703 1727 

TECHNICS Mash CD Player, NAD 
amplifier, mordant short speakers. 
Excellent condition, crystal sound 
only £450 o.n.o. Tel: 0237 475262. 

FEMALE contacts wanted with 
interest in computers, any age. 
Amiga only. Gameboy for sale with 
two games £60, (UK version). Electro 
plus one interface, very good 
condition £25 o.n.o, Phone (0628) 
72275. Steve, 26 Reeve Road, 
Holyport, Maidenhead, Berks. SL6 
2LS 

AMIGA 1.5 meg upgrade boxed, 1 
month old. Will sell for £65. Also Blitz 
Amiga £15. Ring 071 735 123- day 
Night 061 65B 8802. Ask for James. 

WANTED: circuit diagrams and data 
for ye-data YD-280 51/4" disk drive. 
(EXlCL computer). Also circuit 
diagram for Spectrum +2. Tel 0665 
577505. 

ARCHIMEDES A300 HAM board (1 
mbyte) only 4 months use £45 
Phone Alan 0772 316355 (evenings) 
or 0772 268345 (daytime). 


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A s you wnte programs, you will fine that you have 
to do the same things over and over again, 
There will he some routines that you writ have to 
wrile for every program, to read information from the 
user or print results to lha screen; the routines do the 
same job, but the format is slightly different each time. 
The easiest way to deal with this is to adapt code from a 
previous program. If you’ve never written a program 
belore, you'll find more than enough examples in any 
programming text book or manual. 

There are other routines ■ for sorting data into 
alphabetical or numerical order lor example - that you 
will need to use again and again. Rather than searching 
through old programs for the code you want, you should 
keep useful routines in a library. You can copy the code 
out when you need it, or include a reference to the 
library file in your main program. 

A VISIT TO THE LIBRARY 

Do remember to document library routines well, You 
might want to give ihem to another programmer, or 
update them some time in the future. Just because 
you've included a routine from your library in a tot of 
programs doesn't mean that you're going to remember 
how it works, 

Once you've started to keep a library, you may well 
find that you start to think about reusing code when you 
firs! start to write it. This is all to your advantage - if 
you’ve done the work once, there's no poini in doing it 
again later. 

• You can make It easier to use your code some¬ 
where else by making it easier to change the things that 
are specific to the first program. 

If you were planning $ome code to calculate the 
average of ten numbers the pseudocode might look 
something like this; 

average{[ArrayOfttumbereJ, Average) 
add_vpi(ArrmyO£lb^wxej r Total} 

Average ■ Total/ID 

If you wanted to use this later to get lha average of live 
numbers, you would have to rewrite the code. Not only 
does this take up time, it makes your program that little 
bit longer. Do that sort of thing a lot and your program 
will gel very large. Re-usahte code may be a Unto 
longer, but you only include it once. 

If you tell the routine how many numbers there are, 
you can re-use it straight away: 
average < IArrayofNumber9 1 , Howfiany,Average) 
add_np ([Arrayofwuihbera], Total} 

Average = Total/BowHony 

To make the routine even more portable, so that you 
can use it with different groups of numbers, let the rou¬ 
tine work out how may numbers there are: 
ag*{ [ArrayOflSumber*] .Average} 

add_up ([At rayOfHturiierB ] „ Total) 
length t (at rayOfWuaibers ], Length), 

Average ■ Total/Length 


KE YOUR 

FRIENDLY 


Whatever you’re programming, whatever language you’re using, it is 
going to be hard work. Mary Branscombe looks how you can make the 
going easier as you write your code. 


This last routine i& not only easier to re-use, it is also 
more robust, If an array ol nine or eleven numbers was 
passed into the routine for some reason, the first two 
versions of the program wgukt calculate an inaccurate 
result. The final version can cope quite happily, 

H you need to know how many numbers there are 
somewhere else in the program, you could use the 
information from this routine, rather than working it out 
somewhere else as well. You should never make Ihe 
program do the same work twice it you can help it and it 
is worth planning the program carefully to make sure 
that the information retrieved in one place is re-used 
when it is needed. 

Once you start to keep a library 
you start to think about 
re-using tode - if you've done 
work once, there's 
no point in doing it again 

• Constants are easy to change. If you have any pro¬ 
grams lhat work out VAT, then you will have had to 
change them to keep up with Ihe budget. Thai may not 
_ take long for a simple calculator, but think about chang¬ 
ing the VAT figure m a set of accounting programs, If 
you sel up a constant called VAT at the beginning of the 
program, it would be very simple to change ihe figure 
from 15 per cent to 17.5 per cent. Good code is easy to 
update as well as alter. 

LOOK IT UP 

It you ere working on a project wrth a number ol people, 
it is a good idea to keep a cenlr&l library. Feel free to 
use your cherished routines rather than anyone else’s - 
but take a look through what the others put in. You 


IP 

PSEUDOCODE 




When you ptan a program, you are more likely to write 
“read In some data’' then to write oui the full command 
In the language you art using, tf you plan in general 
terms, you can write the code In almost arty language 
you IBta later. 

The code fragments art in pseudocode since we 

•r- 


don’t know what language you are using. Pseudocode 
is similar lo many programming languages, but npl 
restricted to tie syntax of a single language. 




might be able to use some of the code in your sections 
ol the program. 

Check out what i$ in any libraries supplied with 
your programming language as well. The standard 
library supplied with ANSI C includes utilities tor hand¬ 
ling memory, mathematical functions, pseudo-random 
number generators and (unctions for searching and 
sorting, as well as the more familiar input and output 
functions. Any decent object-oriented programming 
language will come with an extensive class library for 
you to use. 

Even if you haven't written a program that deals 
with a similar problem before, someone else may have. 
There are many commercial libraries on the martxet, 
especially for older languages like Fortran, Even if you 
decide you don't warn to re-use ihe code, it can still give 
you some ideas. ■ 

PLANNING 

IE's worth spending a little mere time planning coda 
that you can use 10 limes rather than just once, but you 
should follow the same rules lor planring any program, 

• Make sure you understand the problem and know 
whet you want the program to do. 

m Find out all the dale you can give ihe program as 
input, 

• DwMe what Information you want the program to 
output, 

• Write down whal the problem is end what it involves 
- this is essential if you are working with anyone else. 

V Decide on the main steps ol Ihe program - the 
algorithm. 

• Write down how you intend to tackle ihe program 

• Work through your solution again * just to make 
sure. 

You can divide any program up into different sections. 
The smelter the sections, the easier they will be to write 
end more likely it is that you can use the code- again. 


WANTED - YOUR CO-OPERATION 

Whether you use other people's libraries or write 
libraries for other people - write to us: Programming, 
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EVENT HORIZON 

Who's doing what, with what, with whom, how, why and where... 



Consumer Electron(c> Show 1-4 June 

Ai McCormick Place, Chicago. USA 
Into: 010 1 £02 4578700, 


Virtual Reality 91 5-8 June 

AT the Coherence Forum, London. Info: 
071-931 0985. 

EEMA 11-12 June 

AT Ihe Sheraton Capenhagarc Hotel. 
Denmark. Info: 0386 793 028. 

Portable Computing ‘91 18-19 June 
At Kensington Town Hall Exhibition 
Centre, London. Into-: 0256 63563. 

OISIMC‘91 2-4 July 

The document image processing ocmler- 
enco al the Wembley Conference and 
Exhibition Centra. London. Info: 071-931 
9965. 

PC World Forum 9-14 July 

In Moscow. Info from Terence Coe on 


The insider has hid a fine week poking 
abend the computer Industry in search of 
scurilous gossip and dirty dealings. 8 you 
have snips, or snaps, which you Ihink 
Should be aired to the public, the n send 
them to; The Insider, New Computer 
Express, 30 Monmouth Street. Bath BAl 
20W. Anonymity is assured, as Is a fiver for 
anything used. 

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE Nil 

Sega has long teen trying to find a 
character who will compete In the world 
arena with Nintendo's Super Mario Bros, 
This year it feels that it has cracked il, if 
you will excuse the pun, with Sonic the 
Hedgehog. This spikey, cute little chap is 
being hyped nearly as much as thal ninja- 
kicking star of field and hospital bed, 
(tan, Anyway, at the plush press 
briefing to announce Sonic to the world, 
leading PR company Lynn- Franks put one 


010 1 508 820 6122. 

The International 16 BH Computer 
Show T2 July 

Ai the Novot&l Holel, Hammersmilh, 
London. Info on: 0726 69020, 

Computer Animation Competition and 
Exhibition 21-26 August 

Animation is enjoying a considerable 
amount □( popularity,, with affordable 
computers now offering graphics display 
capabilities previously available only to 
the protossionals, The arrival of some 
exceptional software has meant that 
many gifted amateurs are able to create 
stunning, innovative sequences at mini¬ 
mal cost. A random sample of FD demos 
will reveal the quality of this work. 

The Computer Animation 
Competition is organised by the Amiga 
Centre Scotland and is open to Amiga 
users the world over. The winners' 
entries will be displayed in the exhibition 
al Ihe ACS which is part of the 
Edinburgh Festival, open to the public. 

As well as public acclaim, winners 
wilt receive prizes of hardware and soft¬ 
ware from the sponsoring companies. 

Entries must be on an Amiga disk or 
PAL video lape. Closing date is 31 July. 
Contact Fiona Shiva on 031 557 4242, 


of its star chaps on stage m order to extol 
the virturas of the hog. He proudly 
announced that The Sonic Hedgehog' 
had arrived. Lyn Franks currently 
represents Kenny Lenry, Cherry Nehna, 
and Paul John fiingo Gaultier, Nice ore! 

THE CPC IS UNWIU 

What Is this the Insider hears about 
certain words out of turn at Ihe recent All 
Formate' Fair In Birmingham? It appears 
that a certain Amslrad's Roland Perry 
(the name behind RPED.BAS) mentioned 
in passing that Ihe dear old CPC was due 
for a drop in price. Our sources also letl 
us (and whether this is based on fact is 
open to question) thal out of 100,000 
612Bs made only 20, W0 had been sold. 
Whoops! Does this mean Ihe we are soon 
to CPC the death of Ihe machine which 
mad a Amstrad so loved in the world of 
home computers? 


Leeds Computer Extravagance 

13-15 Sept 

At Ihe New Exhibition Csnlre at Leeds 
University. Into: 0532 677 657. 

Business Communication! Awards 

10 October 

The frfth wmpetilion of its kind, -organ¬ 
ised by BT in conjunction with The 
Sunday Times, The awards will bi pre¬ 
sented ai a dinner at the Savoy Hotel, 
London, Prizes go to those companies 
able to demonstrate the most effective 
use of telecommunications. 

The closing date tor entries is 15 
July. Entry forms can be obtained by 
calling BT on 0600 B00 647. 

Image Processing '91 29-31 Oct 

AI Ihe Birmingham NEC. Into: 061 B60 
9933. 

Computer Graphics'91 5-7 Nov 

At the Alexandra Place in London. Into: 
OBI B66 9933. 

Desktop Cad 91 5-7 Nov 

As above 

Computers in the City 12-14 Nov 


OUR SOUR GRAPES 

It appears thal Mlnrorsoft is not pleased 
with Express town Tim Sm ith. In a recant 
review, the crude and thuggish young 
hack gave a mare 85 per cent to ore ot 
Mirror softs games j The Clodding Of or 
something like that). 

MinorsoH s PR lady and washing 
machine expert, Cathy Campos, fell lhat 
she had to write and complain about the 
outrageous situation. After al l, how could 
a game from the people who brought us 
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, gel 
anything less than 190 per cent? Slapped 
wrists all round. 

THE JCHCI IS ON THEM 

Overheard at Comdex in Chicago: How 
do you gel 400 PC devdopera in a phone 
booth? Put Bill Gates in there and they 
will all crawl up his,.. (that is quite 
enough of that tornowtf. See you soon! 


ffforwrdif 

A look back into the history of 
computing with Express, If if 
happened we reported il first. 

ONI YEAR AGO 

* Playing video games could only be 
Ihe last request Of the most die-hard 
games' fan. Rut this is precisely how 
Leonard Laws, convicted murderer, 
spent his lasl hours on Death Row 
before seeing his last 'Game Over' 
message, 

•in an effort to solve the riddle of the 
Sphinx , or s least of why it insists on 
eroding: away, scientists placed a 
computerised weather centre on Its 
back. Working on solar power, Ihe 
centre sent data on rainfall, wi nd, 
humidity and pollutants to a remote 
htisl computer. The information was to 
te used in developing a way of saving 
the Sphinx from further decay, 

• Only five weeks after its launch in 
Japan , the Neo-Gee console was 
beginning to make unnofficial 
appearances in UK shops, 

The machine offered an 
impressive specification (it doesn't lock 
too bad today): high resolution 
graphics, 4(196 colours al once and 
68006 and 260 processors working in 
tandem. Despite its early start, the Neo- 
Geo doesn't seem to have quite token 
off. Hils could te due to Us price - 
Initially £400 far the machine and £200 
lor each gams cartridge, 

TWO YEARS AGO 

w Cruelty-free computing became 
reality with a system developed at 
Manchester University. Called Ihe 
BioEnglne, the system could 
mathematically predict the interactions 
of molecules with various drugs, so 
avoiding the need for animal testing, 

# Nine hardware manufacturers 
accounted for half of the world's 
personal computer sales, it was 
revealed in a chart published by I DC. 

Only single user machines were 
incFudfett. but nevertheless IBM came 
out wilh the largest share at 11.5%, 
Surprisingly, Commodore came 
second, with 10.7%, but tills was 
accounted tor more by the popularity of 
the C64 rather than Amiga sales. 


At Ihe Barbican Centro in London. Into: 
091 969 4466. ■ 


The Insider • 


A regular look at an industry 
which Is attempting to 'find itself 1 
in terms of o caring yet strong,, 
warm yet u a wimpy personality. 





































































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samples. PC and Amiga file areas. 
Machine knitting news mail area. 

MOVIE BBS - 0703 650037,24 
hours a day, V21 /V22/V22tws 
Speed modem compatible. Celebrity 
gifts, episode guides plus huge adult 
section. Part of Steve and Jackie's 
BBS 

STYLE QBBS - based board with 
areas for Amiga and PC users, Full 


Rdonet. , ‘Nstmail‘ available. On-line 
now 24 hours. Tel 0442 361164. 

SN1. Speed 300- 14.4K (HST) 

CLIP ART (PD) - Send disk and 
$A£ or £1 to Clip Art (PD), 3 College 
Road Blandford Camp, Blandford 
Forum, Dorset, DT11 8BE, tor cata¬ 
logue and examples, 

GAMES DOMAIN PD - Amiga 
Computer Games only, £1 each 
including postage and packing send 
stamped addressed envelope to 22 
Broadwater Crescent, Stevenage, 
Herts, SG2 6EQ. 

ATARI 1 SHAREWARE - From per¬ 
formance PD, Heienville School 
Road. CoBdineham, Berkshire, TD14 
5NS. All shareware £2.99 each. Two 
hundred tor sale. 

AMIGA PD CLUB SWAP - Free PD 
tor Amiga Pius 'swops', hundreds of 
titles and UTILS, Join tree. Send 
blank disk or 5Qp for catalogue to: 
Frank Armstrong, Glen wood House, 
SI Mary’s Road, Eccles, M30 OBA. 

CLUB AMIGA - 24 hour telephone 
helpline, newsletters, cheap PD con¬ 
tacts service etc: Send SAE for more 
info: Club-Amiga, 5 Bowes Lea, 
Shiney Row, Tyne and Wear. 

PRESTIGE AMIGA GAMES (UK)- 

Amiga Games for sale or exchange. 
Large PD Library. Send SAE tor full 
list to K Harvey, 67 Waverly Road, 
South Benfleet, Esse* SS7 4AX. 

TRIPLE X - We are the only PD 
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(PAL), 16 Montgommery Avenue, 
Berth, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA15 1EL 

POSTSCRIPT USERS GROUP-JP 

McKeovm, 3 Pedn Moran, St 
Mawes, Cornwall TR2 5BA, 

NORTHERN IRELAND AMIGA 
USERS - Send £2 for disk-based 
newsletter. Tips, news, reviews etc, 
NIAU, 96 Crebilly Road, Ballymena, 
County Antrim BT42 4DS. 

ST USER GROUP - Send an SAE 
for a news letter to ST User Group, 
Ben Dobson, 1 Ryedale Way, Selby, 
North Yorkshire Y JOS 9PB, 

CLUB M - Monochrome ST user 
group needs members, Dedication, 
enthusiasm and a sense of humour 
are the only membership tees. Small 
ever expanding PD Library. Write to 
CLUB M, 59 Maple House, Idonig 
Street, London SE& 4LT, 


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USER GROUPS H TO W 


HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS . Cn'nhne Manes, 
Micro Users Ltd. Beaver Housing society, 23 
Lewisham H.gh Street, London 5E13, Tel 0S1 
318 1126 

HEALTH WORKERS Sue Mefrendnck, 
Healihlii*. 164 Windsor Rd r Ashton in-Makerfieid. 
Wfian UVN4 9ES, Voice: 0942 7] 2 m 

®M PC USER GROUP PC BOX 360 Harrow 
HA] 4LQ 081^863 1191 BBS 001-663 6646 

INERTIA ADVENTURES - A ray of light in the 
dark cavern of the text adventure Do you dare 
to enter this saga? Proceed by phoning 0265 
5.1051 (dr details. 

J0MAC USER GROUP - Spectrum and Amiga 
Ups and pokes sent every month. "iVrrle wth SAE 
to Jomac’s,. Filey Grove, Rhodes Street, Hui 

JUPfTER ACE - iphn Charter, Jupiter Ace Forth 
User Group, 1 7 Spring Wood Close. Duristan. 
Chesterfield S41 3BS. Tel 0246 237555 

LOCAL AUTHORITIES - Lock: Authority Micro 
User Group, John new. Borough Etigmeer s 
Oept, Municipal Offices. North Qu3\, Weymoulh, 
Dorset DT4 8TA, Tel 0305 735] Dl ext 27? 

LOTUS PRODUCTS Lotus User Group. 79SO 
Peascod Si, Windsor, Berts 514 IDH. 

Telephone 0753 S4 16S& 

LYNX - Ft B Jone&, lynr User Grcnip, 39 Ashton 
Close. Needmgwortti, $t lues, Cambs 

LYNX DISK USER GROUP J Koushappas 
172Pasteur Gdns. London N10. Tel: OB] 807 
3059 

MAG SOFT - six games for the Amslred 
CPC6120.. Send SAE. blank dssk and 50p copy 
charge to Maestri. 2 South Meade, Magbul, 
liverpoci, L31 SEF 

MAGNETIC MEDIA HANDLE WITH CARE 

Amiga disk fanzine with news, reviews, music, 
games, ifhlmes, userhelp, At least two dusks per 
month. Each issue £2.80. Write to Magnetic 
Media hwC, 25 fiigboume Hill, Secoles. Suffolk 
«t34 9JC. 

MEGADRIVE CONSOLE CLUB Used arid new 
games sold, also exchange system and games 
brought from £6-£2? White to AitoreJ* Stanford, 
MCC, 15 Fields Park Drive, Alcester, Warwicks, 
B49 6QR 6r Tel: G7B9 764039 after Am 

MEMOTECH FILE - 93b StJohns Road 
fiidduiph. Staffs STS 6LL 

MEMOTECH - Phil Fyres - Memofer'i Owners 
Club, 23 DennretecT Read. HarefitHd, 

Southampton S02 5GS. Tel 0703 585106 

BLL.MICROSOFT WORD - Lesley Port, folly 
House. Madeira Walk, Bachelors Acre. Windsor, 
Berks Tel 0753 831001 

MICRO DESIGN USER GROUP a new group 
for those PCW owners requirng assitance and 
advice with this DTP package. Large clip art 
ibrary available. Phone Phil on 0709 543390 

MKT CORNWALL COMPUTER CO-OP - Man 

ST. S Victoria read, Roche, St Aiustel, Ccrwat 
PL 26 flJF. Tetreteee 0726 890473 

MIDI/MUSIC - Spectrum music marhme/MIDI 
user group. Magazine on tape, plus programs 
and lots more. For more delays contact Sean 
Sanderson on 05242 62256 

MOTOROLA £8nxx MICROS write to Rick 
Applegate. 68 Microgroup, 3 Great Cob. 
Springfield, Chelmslord, £ 5 . 5 ?*- BBS tel 061-31$ 
7402 

MBX SYSTEMS - write to Kflitfi Neal, MSX Link. 
Austerty House, SO Austerby, Bourne 
Line on shire PE ID 9JL 

NASCOM/W-BUS/CPM- Scorpio Systems, 

PO 60X 286, Aylesbury, Sucks HP22 SPU.Tel 
0296 624868 

NEW BUG COMPUTER CLUB - Support tor ail 
machines. Wans meekly at Oxdose Miitr- 
Pufpose Centre in Waslwigton each Tuesday at 
7pm All welcome, visitors 50p 

NEWBRAIN Ron 6ury, NewBram Support Grp, 
70 Gcanbefry Lane, Darwen, Lanes BB3 2HL, 

Tel 0254 771393 

NIMBUG write to 13 Be*te Vue Aw, Gosforth, 
Newcastie-upon-Tyne NE3 I AH. Tel 091-285 
7806 

NINTENDO GAMEBQY I would like to start a 
user group lor the Came Bny. Write to Justm 
Spencer 2 Rose Villas, Thumfoohnes Farm, 
Owston Ferry, Near Doncaster DN9 JBE or Tel 
042772588 

NW ARCHIMEDES USER GROUP - Meets 
every Friday at Citizens Advice 0ureau, next to 
Spectoim arena m Birchwood, Warrington King 
Paul on D53426 39] 6 after 6prn 


OBSOLETE COMPUTER CLUB - 

Established 1990 (0 preserve and support 
Pre 1986 micros, Apphcaions in writing to 
Mr $ Walters. 42 Achilles Road London MW6 
1EA slating system details, date and history. 
All systems, micros and minis, 

OLIVETTI PCi/PCS USER GROUP - Help 
with all aspects of these machines, Tel 0924 
892106 or write to 68 Queen Elizabeth 
Oive, Normanton, W Yonks 

OS/2 Karen Bums, OS/2 User 
Group .Cecily Hilf Castle, Cirencester, Gfos 
L.G7 2EF. Tel 0285 655863 

OSBORNE/CPM/MSBOS write to 
Jeremy Browne POCK}, 102? Aldershot 
Road. Fleet, Hants GUI3 9NY. Tel 0252 
621745 voice or 626233 BE 

PAGE STREAM USERS GROUP - all 

Atari/Amiga owners oF Pagestoeam send 
large SAE to PUG, 70 Offerton Lane, 
Stockport, &K2 5BS. Include ai your tips 
please, 

PAS PD Ipr the ST. Send 75p for the latest 
details and disk catalogue Irefundablel Write 
to PAS, 97 Holland Street, Ebbw Vale, Gwent 
NP3 6HY. 

PC INDEPENDENT USER CLUB - Helpline 
service, btenontftty journal, shareware/PD, 
local meetings, bulletin board, £29-£5€ pa 
(06 businesses, £19 students) Free 30 day 
trial 0732 771512. 

PHILOSOPHY APPLE - G Haines, Chinese 
Room Club. 43 Cornwallis Gdns. Hastings, 
East Sussex TN34 1LX Tel 0424 714 102 

PICK OPERATING SYSTEM • Hugh Kellt, 

UK Pick Users Assocn. PO BOX 907, London 
N10 2SB. OBI462 4666 

PRESTEL - Andy Leader. ClubSpot BIO, 
Church Farm. Stratton St Michael, Norwich, 
Norfolk. hlRQl 5 2QB 

PSION ORGANISER - Mike OTte&an, IPSO, 
130 StaplefOrd Lh, Beeston, Nottingham 
NG9 6GB. Tel 0602 7354B2 

PUC S ATARI PORTFOLIO USER GROUP - 

New user grot* for Ihe Portfolio packet 
PC/organiser. Offers: newsletters, technical 
assistance, Talkback feature, 
software/hardware updates and hot news, 

Tel 0635 73662. 

QUANTA, QL AND THOR USER GROUP - 

The Comer House. Loxley, Warwick, CY35 
9JT. Tel: 0789 842543 

RESEARCH MACHINES - Steve Rochlord 
RM National User Group, George Stephenson 
High School, Southgate. Killmgworth, 
Newcastle NE12 OSA. Tel 091-268 2002 

REVELATION (PICK) - write to Malcolm 
Frame. UK Ftevefation User Group, 136 Saint 
Albans Road, Watford WD2 4AE or 
Telephone 0923 35515 

R;ftA$£ - write to Mrs Tansy Beal. R Base 
User Group c/c Room A2044 BBC 
Woodlands. 80 Woods Lane, London Wl. 2 
OH, Telephone 08 L-5 76 7187 

SA40 User group - write to Roy Williams, 17 
Grove Road, Acton, London W5 6AW. 

SANYO MBC-550 M H Syed. Wistaria, 53 
Acacte Grove, fJew Malcten, Surrey KT3 3BP, 
Tel 081-942 9009 

SCHNEIDER EURO PC Alex Kefford, 
SEPUG, 11 Grabbet Road, Three Bridges, 


Crawley, WestSnse* RH10 INF 

SCIENTIFIC PC USERS write IQ Tim 
Running, SPCUG PO BOX £7, Retford, Notts 
DN22 6BQ Tel 07 77 709009 

SEGA SWAP CLUB - Exchange your old 
megadrive games wfh other members. For 
details send SAE to S5C, 10 Sandwilli Road, 
Todwill, Sheffield, S31 OJP 

SERIOUS GAMER - Flat C, 43 Cohesions 
Crescent, Lcwlon E8 2LG. Telephone 071 
241 5446. 

SERVICES USERS • write to Squadron 
Leader GHcwson. Services Persor-al 
Computer Association, Stlk Eng 15a HQSTC 
RAF High Wyeomne, Buckinghamshire 

SHAREWARE 5WAPSHOP - 4CK3 plus PC 
shareware disks avaiabte Free. Semnd Blank 
disk. (3.5 or 5.25) and reliun postage for a 
copy of our catalogue to The SSS, 69 
Tillmgboume Green, 5t Mary Cray. 
Oropington, Kenl, &R5 2EX 

SHARP USERS CLUB - contact Andrew 
Ferguson. 11 Harcourt Close, Henley-on- 
Thames, Oxon RG9 1UZ. Tef 0491 574850 
evenings only 

SHREWSBURY AMIGA USER GROUP - 1 

Haughmcmd Court, Featherbed Lane, 
Harlescott, Shrewsbury, SY1 4NJ. Please 
enclose an SAE 

SIRIUS - Simon Sheppard, ISSUE PO BOX 
222, Brighten BN1 3BR 

SHAREWARE KING quality PC shareware. 
Cher 3000 disks.Send SAE plus disks for 
catalogue to C Sunitti, 10 Perwood Close, 
Westbury, Wilts, BA13 3LW. Tel 0703 
865263 

SHREWSBURY AMIGA USER GROUP - 

mforma 1 meetings and tots more planned. 
Write with SAE to A Preece, 1 Kaughmond 
Court, Featherbed Lane, Harlescott, 
Shrewsbury, SYI 4NJ, 

SOFTWARE EXCHANGE - semi an SA£ far 

info to 13 0Qumev*lle Lane Birmingham, 

B30 2JY or phone 0860 444594 from 12pm 
to 10pm 

SOFTWARE EXCHANGE SERVICE 

buy/sell/swap Amiga, ST and PC SAE For 


m?o to 13 Boumville Lane, Birmingham B3Q 
2JY or call 0860 444594. 

SOLITUDE MOUNTAIN Friendly new 
Amiga user group. Sead blank disk or 50p to 
565 Heathway, Dagenham, Essex 

SORD M*23 - B Nicholson, Schlumberger 
tJorge VS Bjergstedveien, 4007 Stavanger. 
Norway. 474 657002 

SMART SYSTEMS USERS ~ write to 
Francis Barton, Basement Holy Rosary 
church, Lows Street, Chapeltcwn, Leeds 
LS7 4BP. Tel 0532 629202 

SOFTWARE EXCHANGE SERVICE - Sor 

into tend SAE tb 13 BourneviHe Lane, 
Birmingham. B30 2JY. New telephone 
number: 021 459 7576. Buy/swap/seM. 

SOUTH 16 AMIGA USER GROUP - the 

UK 5 number one Amiga user group. For 
more information send SAE to South 16, PO 
bo* 16, Southampton, S09 ?AU. Now! 

SOUTHERN AND DISTRICT. PC and ST 

user group Tony Lowes 61A Broadway West, 
Leigh cm Sea, Essex. $59 2BX 

5PANDEFANG SOFTWARE - 68000 AC 
Coders magazine. Send £2 for sample to 4 
Cambridge Terrace, Harrogate, North 
Y of shire, MG1 1PN. Atari, ST, IBM PC. 3.5 
inch disk included in price. 

SPECTRUM PLUS 3 USER GROUP - 

monthly magazine. 57 Lovers Walk. 
Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 4BG 

SPECTRUM DISCOVERY CLUB - 

magazine on disk for the Opus Discovery 
Disk Drive aitd the Sam Coupe. 8D Mumford, 
57 St Saviours Road, West Croydon, Surrey, 
GRO 2XE 

STEN - the ST enthusiasts newsletter issue 
three now ready. Send a disk and SAE for 
your copy now Postal Tnvia League starting. 
Interested? Write to 14 School Road, 
Mcmingside, Newmains. 

ST05 magazine, out every month.Send an 
SAE for full details to 11 Shore Crescent, 
Bishops, Waltham, Hants S03 1DZ 


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This UMf group with a name that OT-umte 
more like & microchip than a gathering of 
enthusiasts is dedicated to the users of 
Siftdfalf‘s portabfe computer, the 208, 

Us ussy to torgat how popular the 
280 Is but travel a lew mites on the train 
and you’ll see tWa rutyber-ktywl mervef 
baittg used by ewerywe from e 
Businessman to 9 student. It’s A4 sUe 
and cwiventent m feuilt software make it 
a popular computer tor (hose on the 


move. However its niche market 
attraction means that any support must 
come from a strong user group. Z88 
Eprom publishes an informative A5 
magazine packed with mail, helplines, 
diaries; reviews, hints and lips lor every 
ZB8 owner, How do you gel In touch with 
these folk? contact Roy Woodward, ZSS 
Users Club, &G Wellington Street, Long 
Eaton, Nottingham, NGTO 4NG. 


SHOPPING EXPRESS BUYERS f GUIDE 


m ■ ■ hlie Sh Offpmg Egress h 

undoubtedly the perfect way to 
V V tradi down the best bargains in 
the computer world, many people are stfll 
wary of buying products via mail ardor or 
through person^ ads. This is probably 
bacause usually you are not able ho have a 
look at what you are purchasing before you 
hand over your money. 

We do everything in our power at this 
end to make sure that all 1 the advertisements 
we run are above board. Bat here art a few 
tips designed to help take the risk out of 
buying; via mail order or aver the telephone. 
• Be precise In describing what you want to 


buy. Leave ito room for error. Feel free to go 
overboard hi double checking details - 
make, model, specifications, colour, size, the 
page number and name of the magazine in 
which you saw the advertisement etc. 
t Confirm the exact price of the article you 
are buying. W you are phoning a company 
check if there are any hidden extras, such » 
postage and packaging, 

* Check how the item will bo delivered to 
you and how long it should take. This is 
especially important wti reader ads where 
delivery details are rarely mentioned, 
t if you are writing offer the preduet keep 
copies of all letters. If you are phoning, note 


down details of when you phoned ami who 
you spoke la. 

• h possible enquire about guarantees ami 
sank. ing. Check the suppl ier s policy on 
returns end refunds. With reader ads, It is 
best to make the effort to see the hem 
pmoftdfy'tefen you hand over money. 

• When dosing wfth cempaniu It is host to 
to pay try credit card, especially for (toms 
over £100, as this prwiilis extra cower 
under the credit card wmpantot' own 
iMuranc* schemes. Otherwise use a crossed 
cheque or postal wear, Are*d sending cask 
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STOURBRIDGE ATARI USERS' GROUP 

for B brt Atari computers, Send SAF to LK 
Taylor, Bredon Road, Statute idae. West 
Midlands, DV8 4LA Telephone 0384 
379575 

STUPID FLOWER PD - new litnary tor ST 
users. Send an SAE for a free catalogue to 
SFFD, 3 Read Mead, Gtestontiury, Somerset 
Safi BON or call '3458 35027 and ask (or 
Matt. 

SUPERPROJECT ■ Geoff Groom, 3 
Sunnyrneade Ave, Carshalton Beeches, 
Surrey, SM5 4JA„ Tel 091-643 3336 

SYNCROSOFT - Exclusive 64 computer 
information. £2.95 to |Qin, including p&p. 
Make cheques to Synaosoft and send them 
to 9-10 MorlandGdns, Soottiall, Midd* UBI 
3DT 

SYRACUSE ARCHIMEDES DISK 
MAGAZINE out now only £4,99. Includes 
live magasme disk plus two disks of public 
domain software. Send to Aste Wythewe 
House 10 Alastair Crescent, PrentOn. Wirral, 
LAS OUR. 

TA$ (DATABASE} • Neil Hegarty, f ASUG 
C/O Solutions for You, 1st Floor, 2 Lytton 
Rd, New Barnet, HedLsm EN5 50Y. Tel 0B1 
441 1133, BBS 081-449 4171 

TCS PD - oyer 250 disks, Only 99p. Send 
SAE to 40 Upton Gardens, Tarring, West 
Wortfiing, Sussex. 

TANDY/MS-DOS Roger Starrs, NATGUG 
Oakfield feign, Ram Hill. Coalpit Heath, 

Bristol BS-12 2TY, Telephone 0454 772 920 

TELECOMMS USERS GROUP Interested 
rn forming a Business Users Telecomms 
Club? if so then contact John Lever, Systems 
Se™ce$, L>ttle Thatches, Rushden. Nr 
Bunimgford Herrs, SG9 OSH. Tel 076 
388393 

TEXAS TI99/4a - Peter Brooks. 

International tl User Group 96 Banbury 
road, Oxford 0X2 6JT. Telephone QR65 
510922. 


THUN DERNEW5 - CBM 64 user magazine 
on O SkAape. Send sae for details and 
compeMiatito 159 Hough Road, Wallsall. 
West Midlands WS2 9BG 

T1UGUK - TI99/4A user group UK (or S/W 
on disk, tape and module. Oilers magazine 
and help, Write with SAE for more details to 
Peter Walker, 24 Bacons Drive, Cufftey, 
Pgtters Bar, Herts EM6 

TRANSPUTER Howard Oakley , Transputer 
User Group, Braoklands Lodge, Parti View 
Close, Wrpxail, Ventnpr, Isle of Wight 

TURBO - SAM Coupe user group. 5« 
newsletters and six magazines each year 
plus a big PC library. £10 for a year. SAE for 
fnformation to TURBO, 8 Healet, Lakeside, 
Tamworth, Staffs, B77 2KF. Established 
January 1990 

TYPECAST POL Atari ST/STE PD. Soleiy 
for DTP, WP, Art, dip art, no games. Send 
disk and SAE for disk catalogue to 31 
Harttield Crescent, West Wickham, Kent. 

UNIX USERS - UkuUG Secretariat Qwtes 
Hall Bunttngford, Herts, SG99PL Tel 0763 
73039/73255 (fax] 

VENTURA PUBLISHING - VPU [Ventura 
Publisher User group) Linda Liddell VPU c/o 
LLA Lound House, Forncett Si Mary, Norfolk, 
NR 16 1JP. Tel 0508 41580 

WAKEFILED AND DISTRICT AMIGA 

USERS - interested in forming a local Amiga 
users' group? Contact Eddy on 0924 
363 101. 

WHITE HEAD PDL - Atari ST PC from 
£1 40 per disk. Send turo second class 
stamps for latest list t& Hakan Akbas, White 
Head PDL, 15 Cavendish Mansions, Ciapton 
Square. London E5. 

WORDPERFECT - Michael Norman. 
WordPerfect User Group (UK) Dove Barn. 
MaiMir Farm Wootton Woodstock, Oxon. 
0X7 1DX. Tel 0993 812 670 

WORDPERFECT - Dr Ian Barton, A Perfect 
World, High Rigg. Alma Rd, Ticteswell 
Derby's SKI 7 8LS. Tel 0298 871 925 


JUNE AUCTIONS ROUND-UP 

Auction starts lG3Gam. viewing and: 
testing from Bant. 

IS JUNE pmm Junior School, Watf 
Wickham, Kent. Auction starts iD 40 sm, 
viewing and tasting from 9m 

SOUTH WEST 

ABTEK (0722 413317) 

1 JUHE-New College, Frobisher Road, 
Swindon, Viewing and testing from B- 
30am, suction starts at 11am. 

BIDDING TIPS 

t Prices st auctions can be quite a lot 
lower than in shops, bill you wilt have to 
pay in lull an the day. 

Middlesex- Auction starts 11 am, tftewfrig # Make sure you gal a catalogue before 

and testing from d-SOott you go along, ft you phone (he 

companies they should be happy to 

MCDiM327®06M} 

3 JUNE-St Pauis School, The Rkiiogs. ♦ Sot yourself s Bmtt. 

Green Streel, Sunbury-On-T^amee, * Give any Items you &re cimsitRstfrig 

Auction starts at l CfWam, viewing end bidding for a good loot owe* And check If 

testing on the evening beforehand from I here l-s srty warranty. If there Is not you 

5pm4pm and on uhe day from 9am, still have the rlghls of a second-hand 

buyer, Under the Sate CH Goods Act yw 

TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SERVICES, sreeiHHIed to a relund if the Item Is faully 
(0816513639) or deal not match up its description. 

1 JUNE Kern na I Manor School, • Wall for (he auctioneer to cad tile first 

Sevsnoalks W$y, Qfphngton, Kent, cefftKt <knMl it 


MANCHESTER 

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20 JUNE-Nafflonil Motorcycle Museum, 
NEC, Birmingham. Auction starts st 
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• Market leader in 


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• Exciting launch plans 

# Britain's fastest- 
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• 14 national newsstand 
magazines. Namely: 
New Computer Express, 


Technical Wr^1 er 

Salary ronee £10.000-612,000 

Do you know your hits Iron, your bytes? Would 
you know what a Megabyte is when it's at 
home? Can you write IntelligeriL literate copy so 
meet strict deadlines? I Jo you know a fair bit 
about the Amiga, the ST ami the PC? Are you 
an insatiable, consumer of magazines? 

Here's why we ask, Future Publishing, 
Britain's fastest-growing publisher, is looking for 
a technically adept and literate person to write 
astonishingly lively, entertaining and 
enlightening copy for As w Computer Express, 
Britain's best-selling weekly computer 


Amiga Format, 

SI Format. Commodore 
Format Amiga Power, 

Amigo Shopper, 
Amstrad Action, Your 
Sinclair, Sega Power, 
PC Plus, 8000 Plus, PC 
Answers, Noodle craft 
and Classic CD. 




magazine. 

We're not looking lor The World's Most 
Boring Tech-Head, but rather for a smart, 
ambitious, self-motivated writer who knows 
why computers enable rather than aiiow; who 
can explain to experts and beginners alike how 
to get the most from their computer: and who 
fancies the idea of living in Bath, earning a 
decent bur not massive salary, 

If that sounds like you. send a letter of 
application, a CV and either samples of 
published work or 500 words on Why 
CoinpukTs Need Magazines, to Lauren Evans. 
Human Resources Manager, at the address 
below. Pronto. 


Future PublidiiiE Ltd. BeaufDrd Court 30 Monmoutii Sfrfcet. Gath, BA1 2BW Tct: |0225) 442244 






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We are looking for people with 
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Programmers should be able to 
show at least one completed game 
in any assembly language. 

Artists should be able to provide 

ST or Amiga demos that arc of the 
highest quality. 

! Send your C.V. and demos to: 

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Newland Street, Witham 

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Tel: 0376 500275 

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Sleepless Knights 

We require one PC Programmer 
(asembler only) to work in house, 
developing top quality software. 

The likely candidate may not have had 
any previously released product, but 
will be able to demonstrate a high 
degree of technical ability in 
programming the PC. This person will 
start work immediately on a product 
we are currently developing for 
Microprose Software Ltd at 12K Plus. 

Contact in strictest confidence Mark, 
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Tel: 0772 881564 
or Fax: 0772 881600 

Alternatively write to us at this address: 

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Church Court Business Centre, 
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Freelance Computer 
Graphic Artist 



applied interactive technology 


ATT, is a Henley based company working on a wide 
variety of leading edge design and technology 
projects. We apply computer graphic design to 
on-screen applications ranging from entertainment to 
banking systems. 

We need a freelance computer graphic designer and 
vfsuaiiser to work in-house to supplement our staff 
team. 

You are talented imaginative and keen to work in a 
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Fluency in use of Deluxe Paint software Is required 
and in return we offer excellent rates of pay and 
working conditions. 

To find out more, phone in the first instance or send 
your CV to; 

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The Old Assembly Rooms, 16 Bell Street, 
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MAC FANTASTIC 


THE PD COLUMN 

it's Public Domain time again folks, your weekly guide to all the best in (almost) 
completely free software. This week: Mac mania, weird demos and great games... 


T he- Apple Macintosh has tong been 
a compute* associated with huge 
bank, balances and unlrmiled 
spending power, What need then, would 
people who could afford such a machine, 
have of free software? 

Probably very little, but with the 
advenl of tbe Mac Classic, Apple power 
aod flexibility bag come within roach of a 
whole new market. The Classic isn't 
much more expensive than an Amiga 
{with monitor), and offers one of the best 
desktop environments around. 

So whal does this have to do with 
Public Domain software? Fact is, the 
American Pp scene caters extremely 
well for the Macintosh, Hobbyists and 
professional programmers alike have 
been pumping out software of incredible 
quality for years now. 

Fantasia Software in Bristol has a 



• Homottk OstMkttec kming physkt with 

fa Mat i$ Mty f«L 


useful and impressive range of 
Macintosh and PC software. The firm 
dropped off a few sample disks of 
assorted stud at the office, an office 
which happens to be chock-a-block full 
of gleaming Macs. 

A lot of the software was exten¬ 
sions, add-ons and variations of desktop 
features. Some serious, some not so 
serious, One ol the weirder things wa$ a 
disk containing screen saver graphics- 
Screen savers are pictures which flash 
randomly when you aren't using your 
Mac, These stop images burning your 
picture tube and ruining your monitor, 

Lots ol these were simply pictures, 
but the most entertaining one is a litlte 
group of fish who swim around, the big 
ones eating the little ones. Well, we 
thought ft was funny anyway. 

On a more practical note, the discs 
contain some absolutely brilliant educa¬ 
tional programs, covering all ages, Irom 
toddlers to adults (al least adults with a 
precarious grip on the likes of particle 


physics and bio-chemistry). 

There is a simple and useful arith¬ 
metic teaching program. This displays a 
running child (boy Or girl depending on 
your choice). The child will run toward a 
finish line if you answer an arithmetic 
problem correctly. 

We all know 
Mr. Einstein's theory, 
but watching it 
graphically on screen 
dears a lot of confusion 

The answers are displayed multiple 
choice style al the lop ol ihe screen, This 
makes the margin for error slightly less, 
but is a useful gauge of how well your 
child grasps arithmetic. 

The difficulty can be sei before the 
F gam$ H begins, so you can vary rt 
according to your child's age or ability. 


The program isn't particularly complex, 
but it is polished and entertaining. 

For the more intellectually asptra- 
tional among you, there is a whole suite 
of physics software, all educational. This 
software includes practical damonstra- 
tions of most aspects of physics, the 
mosl intriguing of which is a graphical 
model of the theory of relativity. 

This particular program shows a 
■rocket’ made of clocks, [ravelling al light 
speed. As the rocket accelerates, the 
effect ol faster than light travel is shown 
on the clocks, The hands of the clocks, 
following mathematical principles, begin 
to move backwards. This apparently 
proves Einstein's theory of relativity. We 
have all heard the theory, but watching it 
explained graphically on screen clears 
up a lot of doubts, 

There are also similar programs 
explaining Kepler's spring thing theory, 
Ballistic motion, potential energy and 
harmonic oscillation'. Great lor all the 
people who flunked physics at school, 


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SHOPPING EXPRESS 47 


A BIT TOO SERIOUS? 


DEMOS TO GAMES 


If all this talk of Einstein and Kepler Is a 
bit too much for your poor brain, Ihen 
Fantasia can also provide a nice easy 
range of games. Mostly puzile games, 
but there are a couple of arcadey titles 
floating around. The range of games is 
all very well, bu( hidden amongst them 
was a real little gem, 

A guitar synthI ll will keep you 
engrossed for hours. The strings of trie 
guitar are displayed on screen, you sim¬ 
ply drag the mouse pointer across them 
to play notes o-r even chords. 

it is completely idiot proof, you hold 
down selected keys to change the note 
or chord and away you go. Twang, ker- 
rang, Woooaaaway, Eddie Van Halen 
eai your heart out Well, no„ nol quits. 
But while trio sounds aren't exactly 
AC/DC, they are enough to give you a 
few hours strumming fur. 


A reasonably well 1 known PD demo 
maker and supplier has finally put its 
name on the map. Seventeen Bit 
Software has just released its first fully 
commercial game. 

Full Contact is obviously far too 
good: to be released on the PD circuit 
and so, by securing a publishing deal 
with specially named budget label Team 
17, the Seventeenies have started 
something really interesting. 

Demo makers make games? 
Everyone knows that the best demos 
include some absolutely stunning pro¬ 
gramming techniques, these it sooms 
have been carried over onto the well 
received first release. 

Stalwart PD spotters may be able to 
recognise some of (he graphic styles 
used. Well done to the Seventeen Bit 
team, especially as the game has been 


GET SPACED OUT 


Aircraft and spacecraft enthusiasts will 
be pleased to hear that a disk packed Hilt 
of hugely interesting information on all 
things aeronatical has become available, 
including articles from leading NASA 
scientists, no less. 

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tetter from a NASA guy viqpteinmg that 
he had to slop work for a time, while 


repairs were made to the sealing rings 
on the doomed shuffle Challenger. 
Apparently,, it w»s written before that 
terrible tccktent of 19B6. 

It's these little extras which set this 
program, apart from standardised lists 
and numbers Information databases 
which, white useful, hardly make fora 
}pHy riveting reed, 


released at a 16-bil budgel price of 
£i 0.99, which should put many big soft¬ 
ware houses to shame. 


AMIGA PSYCHEDELIC TRIP 



•Nolmitv Ytitd Amigo 


Amiga demos are hardly sparse, so it 
comes as something ol a surprise when 
A demo makes you $it up and take 
notice. New Wave software sent along a 
demo that did jusi that. 

The No Limits Back Pack 2 demo ft 
swear, the names get even more stupid 
than thal] contains some really pokey 
times and graphical etiects, some of 
which are impressive and some com¬ 
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One of the options on ihe menu you 
are presented with, is to bool up seme of 
Ihe most psychedelic images you'll ever 
see. Most ot these involve bands of 
colour moving almost exactly like water, 
The movement of fie “water - is almost 
hypnotic and further enhanced by the 
use of a full 4096 colours. 


WHERE TO GO 


F ante sis Software supplies a vast 
range of software lor IBM PCs and 
Apple Macintosh. Its Mac catalogue will 
be Bvaiiabte shortly, send an SAE to: 
Fantasia Shareware, PO Box 1254. 
Compton Martin, Bristol. Tel: 07€T 
221565 

Seventeen Bit Software can be 
contacted ah 

Seventeen Bit Software, PO Box 97, 
Wakefield, WF1 tXX. Tel: 0924 366902 

More Amiga demos from: 

Vims Free PD at 23, Eitaro ugh Road, 
UonwJwi, Swindon, Wilts, SN2 2LG. 


The music tracks a ccom pan ying 
this visual display are, without exception, 
brillian with excellent use of samples and 
sequencing software. Most alluring is a 
kind of Japanese sounding hip-hop mix. 

There are trie usual vector and cop¬ 
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oil flawlessly and seemingly in time to 
Ihe music. The good thing about trie No 
Limits demo is that it features the work of 
a fair few artists, Musicians and pro¬ 
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HARDWARE 


REVIEW 




PERFECT OUTPUT 


Thermal wax transfer printing is a relatively new method of producing 
high-quality colour output at an affordable price. John Cooper takes a 
look at one of the cheapest devices on the market: The Spectra*Star. 




U ntil fairly recently,, colour output was prohibitively 
expensive - either you accepted relatively poor 
quality output from colour inkjet printers of you 
paid several tervs of thousands of pounds for a high- 
quality colour output device. 

However, recent advances in technology have 
meant that the price has dropped radically - the cheap¬ 
est machine in (he Spectra'Star range now sells for just 
£4.000 plus VAT. OK, it's still not exactly peanuts, but 
small businesses are now considering colour printers as 
an alternative to going lo the local copy shop to produce 
things tike coloured overhead transparency slides, 

COLOUR THEORY 

Colours on the page are created by overlaying varying 
amounts of three 'primary printing colours' - cyan, 
magenia and yellow. Although black can be created 
simply by overlaying 100 percent of all three colours, in 
practice this black is not dark enough - it tends to look 
slightly grey - so black is primed as a fourth colour. This 
is why lull-colour printing is often referred to as 'CMYK': 
(or Cyan, Magenta. Yellow and. the Key colour (black). 

Desktop colour printers are generally either three- 
colour,. relying on mixing the three logether to produce 
black, or four-colour, with a separate black ink as (he 
fourth colour. Three-colour printers are normally much 
cheaper than their four-colour equivalents, but are not 
generally regarded as being as good for exacl colour 
proofing work, 

THE SPECTR A‘STAR 

The printer on review is the middle model in the 
Sp6Ctra*Star range, the 43d. and can work in both throe 
and four-colour modes, ft can also, il required, jusl have 
a black 'ribbon' installed, although this seems to be a bit 
q 1 a waste - you dent often think of paying £6,900 far a 
one-colour printer. 

Setting up was simplicity itself. Installing the ribbon 
is a piece of cake; Irom opening the box to having the 
printer sitting on the desk (a rather large and sturdy 
desk is required, it should be noted) took less than fif¬ 
teen minutes. 

The model we tested has parallel, serial and 
AppleTalk connectors, so attaching it to a computer was 


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no problem; again, (he documentation is good and the 
package includes 3,5-inch and 525-inch disks contain¬ 
ing PC utilities as well as a 3,5-inch Macintosh disk. 

For test purposes we connected the machine to 
one of the office Macs. This involved simply plugging 
the printer imo the Mac via AppleTalk and installing a 
couple of small pieces ol software. The printer output an 
imago first time - but only in mono, it took us about hall 
an hour before we discovered the problem: you have lo 
alter the printer type from 'LaserWriter If to somelhing 
like 'QMS ColourScript' or Tek Phaser PX' before you 
can persuade the printer to actually output colour. 
Easy when you knew how, but il would have been eas¬ 
ier if the manual had actually informed us, rather than 
leaving us to guess. 

This problem solved, The printer was faultless in 
operation. The output ol thermal wax transfer devices 
is slightly shiny, which means that pnntouts ft»k very 
impressive. The only other niggle is one which is 
common to all colour printers of this type: because the 
printer must grip fhe paper lightly as il moves rt about lo 
ensure that colours are not printed out of registration, it 
is impossible to achieve a full A4-sized output. 

Using the printer from a PC is equally simple; emu¬ 
lation modes include HP-GL and PostScript, so mere 
should be no problem getting your software to talk lo it. 


IS IT WORTH IT? 

The printer's supplier. General Paramelrics, claims that 
consumables such as Ihe ribbons and paper (you can’t 
use normal paper in the printer) cost about 20 per cent 
less lhan iheir competitors'. However, this still leaves 
you with a cast of about 36 ponce per page output on 
paper and a staggering 98 pence per page on OHP film. 
Clearly, the printer is not intended for outputting reams 
of pages every day. But for the small business which 
needs something for rough colour proofing, or even for 
producing colour front pages for limited-nun brochures 
(ihe cos! per page is lar cheaper than getting a colour 
photocopy), this printer is well worth considering. ■ 

The prices of /he Spectra'Star range are on a separate 
panel. The suppliers. General Paramelrics, can be con¬ 
tacted on 081 8973646- 


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Thermal wax transfer printing is a 
process whereby coloured, 
iranslucent wax-based inks are 
transferred from a ribbon to fhe 
paper, Three-colour printers have 
three dllfererrt ribbons: cyan., 
magerrta and yellow. Four-colour 
printers also have a black ribbon. 

Different colours are generated 
by superimposing two or more films 


on lop of each other - for example, 
Ihree^olour printers produce black 
by putting all three films on top of 
each other. This has bofh 
advantages and-disadvantages: 
three-colotir printers are cheaper, 
but give a less dark black than four- 
colour devices. For many, the black 
is perfectly adequate - it's only if 
you wanl exacl colour matching trial 


you might not find it deep enough. 

A lar cheaper method of colour 
printing is inkjet printing, where 
coloured inks are sprayed at the 
page, However, there is a drawback 
to Ihe lower price - Ihe quality is 
nowhere near as good, II you ate 
look ing for decent quality colo ur 
output, Ihermal fransfer is Ihe only 
reel option. 


PRODUCT DETAILS 

There are four models fit the Speclra^Star range (we 
reviewed 1 the 430). Each modal Includes aft the features 
of the one before; 

t Model 410:1Mb RAM, Serial and Parallel ports. 
Mitsubishi emulation, £4,000 * VAT. 

• Mode! 420:4Mb RAM, HP-GL and TARGA emulation. 
£4,900+ VAT. 

• Model 430:6Mb RAMI, AppleTalk port, PostScript 
Interpreter, 35fonts. £6.900 + VAT. 

% Model 440:30Mb Internal hard disk, ETBA, 

+ Model 45ft: Able lo produce 35mm slides (with 
option add-on}, £T6A, 


FOR AND AGAINST 


POINTS FOR 
A Easy to set up. 
a Professional-looking oufpul- 
A Fast printing speed. 

A Good range of emulations available - Including 
PostScript 

A Easy to use to produce overhead projector slides. 

POINTS AGAINST 

▼ Expensive initial purchase. 

T Far higher ebst-per-paqe than normal laser printers. 

▼ Requires its own special paper. 
























































































GAMESWEEK 


GAMERS 1 GUIDE 


BUBBLING 

UNDER 


• Nintendo's 
Soper 
Famicom 
launched to 
lire Japanese 
public last 
year, is at 
Iasi set to 
appear in a 
rno-dilled 
farm in Aw 
USA this summer, It 
should reach Europe in 1993. 



• Owners of Imported machines will 
also be pleased to bear that Electronic 
Arts has three new Soper Famico m 
titles . Well, new-ish, for these are 
cosmetically enhanced conversions, ol 
existing Sega MegaOrive releases ... 
Joining Populous on the 
SuperFamicom will be the basketball 
simulation Celtic Versus Lakers, John 
Madden's Football, and PGA Jour Goff. 
Could ihis ailed the loyalty of 
Meg&Drive owners? We asked 
Electronic Arts' PR Manager Simon 
Jeffrey. He believes “It will vary from 
title to lille. The Super Famicom s 
specialities He in ditfererrl areas to the 
MegaOrive s. Sound is one of its 
strongest features, and this is of major 
interest for us. especially with Rob 
Hubbard witling our tunes. He's done 
some great stuff for the Sega and he's 
been itching to- get his hands on (he 
Soper" Farrocom s Sony chip for 
sometime, so you really will notice the 
difference. 1 ' 

The quantity of home computer to 
console conversions Is increasing, 
especial ly with more end more 
developers keen to move on to Whiling 
for the more financially rewarding 
consoles. The situation could work in 
reverse - BA for one isn't ruling out the 
possibility ol converting, say. John 
Madden's Football lo the Amiga. 

"Consoles and home computers 
can sit side by side. There are different 
mentalities of owner. Some buy a home 
computer because lhere is slill the 
premise that you can do other things 
with il, more so In Europe where people 
are more suspicious of the Idea of 
computers, purely for home 
enleriainmenl." 

And what of Electronic Arts' 
vision ol the future ol console 
software? "t Ihink you'll see quits a few 
polygon games appear|ng,"5ay5 Simon. 
"Sega has licensed Abcsms Baffle Tank 
Irom us and has converted it to the 
MegaDrive for release in October. In 
September we're shipping F-22 
Advanced Tactical Fighter lor the 
MegaDrive - and that's a polygon-based 
flight simulalion, 11 



Riding along on the crest of a software wove, Gary Penn surfs up the 
news, views, previews and reviews of the latest happening items..* 


G gad nows for anyone who can't 
afford much more than the 
cheapest ol budget titles ... 

French publisher UbiSoft is releasing five 
compilations of former full-price titles 
this summer, with a further five 
collections due to appear before the end 
of this year. Magnum (£2$,99} brings 
together a diverse mixture of simulation 
and arcade acton, with UbiSott's very 
reasonable Pro Tennis Tour, the 
motorcycle racer RVF Honda and 
Oriental Game (which takes its 
combination of events a little loo 
seriously for my liking)- and two mn-of- 
Ihe mil Dinamic til es: (ha arcade 
adventure come nun-'n'-jump romp 
Satan and the slightly less runny and 
jumpy After The War. 


The Winning 5 (£29.99) has a 
content no less varied but is exclusively 
a UbrSoft affair. The collection comprises 
the mediaeval adventure Iron Lord, the 
vampire-orientated arcade adventure 
action of NightHunler, the $ickeningly 
cute Gauntlet-inspired Puffy's Saga, 
and two quite respectable arcade 
adventures: Twin World and Sir Fred 
#•••••••#§• 

Cassette-based Amstrad CPC, 
Spectrum and Commodore 64 users 
need not feel left out, for there are two 
compatible oampilatons coming ...The 
Ultimate Collection and Six Appeal, 
both featuring six titles and priced at 
E14.99t.Th0 Ultimate Collection’s alar 
attraction - Geoff Crammond's 
superlative Stunt Car Racer (first 



* Stent Cur Roar;/art n fat!, but ot Half ptke. 


released on the MicroStyle label) -is 
(oined by three titles irom UbiSofl and 
two irom Spanish publisher Dinamic. 
Ubi's contributions are the lulure sport 
Skatewars, the atmospheric cursor- 
controlled adventure Zombi, and 
ProTennis Tour. The Dinamic duo 
comprises After The War and the butt- 
kicking blaster AAfC. 







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Ip Hero Quest 
Monkey island 
Lemmings 

Defender of the Crown 
Gods 

Fantasy World dizzy 
North and South 
Steve Davis World Snooker CDS 
20 Ninja Rabbits Micro value 


US Gold 

Grem’m Graphics 
US Gold 
Pgygnosis 
Mirror Image 
Renegade.-'MErxJscapeST AG 


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The saucy-aounoing Stor Appeal 
(which is also available in diskette 
lorm for £19.99 on the Commodore 
64 only) has just that. The most 
appealing of the six is Core Design's 
Rick Dangerous (first released on 
the Firebird label).The Firebird- 
produced conversions of Jaleco's 
arcade shoot 'em up P-47 have their 
moments, as do Dynamic's Satan and 
UbiSoft's Twin World. Puffy s Saga 
and the peculiar arcade-style punier 
(for want of a more appropriate term) 
Pick a Pile 

Last but not least, there's fun to be 
had for all the ISM PC family and 




Ocean* Amstradl Cartridge £24.99, Commodore 64 Cartridge £19*99, 
Spectrum Cassette £10.99, Amiga & Atari ST £24.99 
Planned Versions: None 



Aft? first end-of-ieveiBoss eaiomloredis this fellow. He 
i&api a found the tireen, making a grab for Toki and frequently 
issuitsq forth 0 string ot fear luuuKinj <h\,vp-like beings. The 
Busses jpt weirder slill farther into ihe adventure. A Heating 
Mfcldfci Mfld-ofifcfi thraws haunting eyeballs at Teki, and a 
large, hag-legged tteotytt spits oat letters spotting out ihe 
wordmFl 


The course of Irue love never runs smooth, especially 
when your missus has jusl been abducted by a nefarious 
magician who, as a parting gesture, knocked you down lo 
the lower rung s of the evolutionary ladder. The once rock- 
hard Toki Is now an ape. A reunion and revenge are on the 
cards ■ hut Toki s rival isn't dealing with a lull deck. His 
wgrtd is split into six, evary-way scrolling zones pecked 
with platforms, ladders and bizarre beasts. 

Being an ape does have advantages Ihough, namely 
increased agility lo aid negotiation of (he environment, and 
the socially unacceptable ability to spit in almost any 
direction, which comes in handy when it comes to 
removing adversaries Irom Ihe scene. 

Toki's flobbi ng power is occasionally boosted and 
even turned to flame thanks to special icons left lying 
around. What a pily ihey don't last long. Tad Corporation's 
coin-opera led cult favourite has come to Ihe hornet 
machines In style. These are cracking conversions all 
round, every one capturi ng ihe lough Out playable end 
rewarding nature ol the arcade parent. A special mention 
must go to the near-perfect Amiga version complete with 
its parallax scrolling and attractive 32-calour display. 





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* ftkk Dangeroe r; going vndergrevnd. 


compatible kin with five racey releases 
collsctivsfy known as FastLane Stunt 
Car Racer once again lakes pole 
position. Jus! for tl>e (track) record. the 
other four titles are Spectrum HoloEyle's 
Vatta , Electronic Arts' ageing but 
acceptable Ferrari Formula 1. Dgmark's 
adequate conversion ol Atari Games' 
Hard Drivin' and Microid's lacklustre 
Highway Patrol. 





* Guarr for hod ensues An Prehisiorik. 


"Half human, half hungry - ■ that's 
how French publisher Titus describes 
the .neanderthal star of its new run n' 
jump romp. Prehiatorik This club- 
wielding caveman nBads food, and so he 
undertakes a journey across the scrolling 
fields of Antarctica and through 
darkened caverns and Tropical fungtes. 
He's not the only one who's hungry 
though - there are species of dangerous 
dinosaurs roaming the land loo Priced 
at £25-99. Prehistoric should be 
available for the Amiga, Atari ST and 
IBM PC and compatibles by the time you 
read Ihig. ■ 


SUPER CARS 


Gremlin * Amiga, Atari ST 


The choicest cuts of information and 
advice, courtesy of the authors, 
collectively known as Magnetic Fields, 


THE SHOP 



When the shop is visited (he equipment 
costs are chosen el random from 
between a quarter of |he maximum price 
and the maximum, The trade-in prices are 
simply three-quarters of the sale price 
shown. The following chart should prove 
uselul lor wheeler-dealing wheel- 
spinners,.. 


ITEM 

BUY 

SELL 

FHONTMISSILE 

1M-400 

76 - 300 

REAR MISSILE 

150- 500 

110-450 

HOMING MISSILES 375 - f5Q0 

2001125 

SUPER MISSILE 

250-1000 

105 ■ 750 

MINES 

200- BOO 

150 - 600 

TURBO JUMP 

125-HW 

90-375 

ARMOUR 

750-3000 

560 - 2250 

RAM 

250-1000 

185-750 

ENGINE 

1250 - 5000 935 - 3750 


FRONT AND REAR MISSILES, They have 
their uses, sure, but they are best used lo 
fund the purchase of other weapons. Buy 
them cheep then sell them when the price 
is right, HOMING MISSILES Unbeatable 


alkound entertainment, but best used to 
fake oul the opposition on fast courses or 
to dear narrow roods, 

SUPER MISSILE Useful In funnels where 
you can’l see whal's coming or on 
courses with gates where oars suddenly 
appear coming the other way. 

MINES Keep the opposition off your tail - 
but don't forget that the mines do self- 
destruet.TURBO JUMP Use it to leap to 
(he front of Ihe queue al (he very start of 
a race (le when standing still) or lor 
Jumping trains (which is best done from a 
distance ol approximately three cars). 
ARMOURA Must Buy, but not al any cost. 
Be frugal. And be prepared lor the hard 
level by buying all three grades. RAM Alt 
wail and good, but it doesn't do your car 
any favours either. ENGINE Increases 
your car's top speed (which Is near- 
essenhal -on higherievels) but don't sell 
your granny lo white slave traders to get 
one. 

COMMUNICATIONS 

Don't lurn (hern off - these screens are a 
good source of cash and points (provided 
you know the answers), On most screens 
It's wise to be self-confident bul not 
cheeky. When it comes to dealing with 
theTransport Inspector, keep your 
answers as straightforward as 
possible One ol the answers 1$ always 
RIGHT, one is always WRONG, and the 
elhencouid go either way so just because 
you got it rlghl or wrong the first time, 
doesn’l mean (I will necessarily be so the 
next time around - haha! 

COURSE FEATURES 


GAMESWEEK 



JUMPS Keep as straight as possible at 
launch - unless there's a corner involved, 
In which case jumping at a slight angle 
can avoid a collision with a wall on the 
other side, ff you get stuck In a (raffle jam 
before a jump, wait unlit the mess clears 
before taking a fun-up. CROSS OVERS 
Don't cheat - otherwise the lap won't 
count. Even it you get knocked off 
course, go back and clear Ibis obstacle. 
OPENING GATES It's usually worth 
waiting (or them to open, so do so. AH the 
gates on the same course open and close 
at the same time, so it's easy enough to 
tell when the lime is right. Bear in mind 
that you can just about squeeze through 
closing gates. TUNNELS So you got stuck 
and couldn't get out. The next lime It 
happens, keep turning until the screen 
scrolls in the correct direction (hen make 
your move. 

GENERAL ADVICE 
HANDBRAKE TURNS These are best 
employed on tight corners. As (he bend is 
approached.take your linger off Ihe 
accelerator and lurn the car. When It's 
hallway through the turn and ttius the 
desired direclion, hit the accelerator. 
GVERTAKINGThi s Is usually easily 
achieved on the straights, although il is 
possible to do the deed on the comers... 
Take the Inside line and bump the other 
car. By the time it gets its bearings you 
should be long gene, Remember that 
crashing into another car slows you 
both down, so there may be times when 
you need to be patient and wait for a 
more suitable overtaking opportunity. 



A In tme Ghosts V Gebfm style, m overview of the wrjr/cT re beron- 
goered is shown before phy -jost to lei you koow where yoo stand. 


V This siieabk ske of the first ion # serves tc Ukritrote the atlnxtivmus of Tetu'i odd, andhostik, environment. 
Hote the 16-fan weigh! hatoKed on the see-sow to the far right- the tuablnution's used to shoe t Tokr to new heights. 



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IMPROVING PC SOUNDS 


PC SOUND 
SOLUTION 

The PC’s sound is normally limited to a diminutive beep. Keith Pomfret 



■ Sound Matter tl hot oh that you'll need fur PC sound mivd- 
iag e headset, NttOi ports and tampreh§nsiv§ docanmilatioa. 


listens to a soundcard that puts the PC into the Amiga sound league... 


ike most sound cards, Sound Master It comes Irom 
the US. This is hardly surprising considering that, 
■ as well as being a business machine, the PC i$ 
seen as much more of a home leisure machine than 
here in Britain .Thus the need tor decent sounds , 

Manufacturer Covox claims that the Sound Master 
II: card and its associated peripherals otter a complete 
Multi-Media sound package compalible with all major 
PC specifications and existing industry standards,So 
what's it all about? 


POWER OF SPEECH 

Most important to the PC gamer is Sound Master's com¬ 
patibility with industry standard sound-card Ad-Lib. 

This means hundreds at programs boasting sound 
drivers tor the Ad Lib board can benefit from Sound 
Master II. As well as Ihe ability to enhance the sound ol 
games, (here are several olher features that make it a 
fascinating and well specified product. 

The board can sample and edit sound, work as a 
MIDI interface, function as a polyphonic multi-tymbral 
synthesiser and recognise and synthesise speech. 

Software is provided to do all ol this, and a MIDI 
record and notation package allows you to record music 
either on the screen or Irom a musical instrument and 
view and print it as manuscript. 

In the Soundmaster II box is an 8-bit PC expansion 
card, a headset with built in microphone, MIDI cables, a 
speaker, software and manuals. Installing the board is a 
sample matter at unplugging the PC, opening it up, slitt¬ 
ing the card into any available eight or sixteen bit slot 
and securing it. sNg problems there. 

There’s an included cable to allow the Sound 
Master II to connect to the speaker port on the PCs 
main system board and this caused a slight panic duo 
to the fact that the portable we planned to test ihe card 
on didn't have an accessible main board. 

A switch to a desk top machine brought the board 


into view but some ingenuity was needed to make the 
connection and pursuade it to work. Once this had been 
done, it was a simple matter to pul the PC back 
together and check the rest ol the package's contents. 

PASS THE PORT 

With the board installed, there were inputs lor 
line/microphone and a low level signal input, a volume 
control, mini-jack audio output and a nine pm port tor 
connecting the provided MIDI cable. 

The hardware was installed and connected in 
about 15 minutes and with the machine re-assembled it 
was time to run the test software to make sure lhal all 
was OK. All the tests were passed with flying colours 
and it was on to the test proper 

Sound Master II buys you the 
facilities to do o great deal more 
than listen to the pleasant 
screeches of dying aliens 

Most soundcards for the PC serve a simple func¬ 
tion ol greatly enhancing the noises that programs 
make. Games benefit Irom more realistic sound and the 
hideous I6M beep is done away with m favour qt some¬ 
thing a good deal more melodic. While most simple 
soundcards stop there, the extra you'll pay lor Sound 
Master 11 buys you Ihe faci lilies to do a great deal more 
than listen to the pleasant screeches of dying aliens. 

In order to be able to process sound other than that 
made on its own synthesiser chip, it has two inputs, The 
first is a low level input suitable tor dynamic pattern 
microphones of recording studio quality. The second is 
a high level input suitable for signal line or microphones 
working on ihe electret crystal principle. The analogue 
inputs are boosted by a pre-amplifier. 


FOR AND AGAINST 


FOR 

A Well specified 
a Well featured 
A Ad Lib compatible 
A Good documentation 

AGAINST 

T Software not as user friendly as some 
▼ Good value but E20Q+ is still a lot lo pay if you only 
wgnl a soundcard 


GOOD AS THE AMIGA? 

Digital input is handled by an fi-bit AD converter which 
allows a sampling rate of 25KHz. This is comparable lo 
digitisers being used with Ihe Amiga and is certainly a 
high enough sample rate to allow decent clarrty of Ihe 
sampled sound, 

Once Ihe sound is into the PC, it can be edited 
from existing tiles Irom itself or other soundboards, 
Waveform editing software allows the sound to be 
edited on the Hy or from tiles. Real time editing includes 
pitch changing, harmony building, Hanger and chorus 
effects, echo, reverb, and distortion. 

To compliment the real-time effects there is an on 
screen waveform editor that features a graphic display 


of the section of the sound Shat you're working on. Using 
this screen you can cut, paste, splice, invert filter, move 
and adjust any aspect of the sounds. 

Once the sound is processed it is output via a digi¬ 
tiser offering the same sample rate as commercial CDs, 
although the hardware isn't able lo produce CD quality 
sound just yet. 

If a digital or analogue sound source isn't available, 
there's an on board multichannel polyphonic synthe¬ 
siser. This uses FM synthesis to voice up lo nine 
melodic sounds or It jl percussion is included. 
Analogue synth effects such as vibrato (frequency mod¬ 
ulation) and tremelo (amplitude modulation) and 
combinations ol both are possible. Because the synthe¬ 
siser is Ad Lib compatible it is possible lo use it with 
professional MIDI software that can drive the AdLib. 

To allow two cards to be driven simultaneously or 
to avoid address problems., Ihe part addresses ol Ihe 
Sound Master can be simply aftered. A MIDI lead is pro¬ 
vided and configures the card for a pair of MIDI ports (in 
and out). MIDI software can drive the card internally or 
externally and the availibilrty of all ot these features on a 
Single card solves all ot the PC sound input output prob¬ 
lems and yet only uses one expansion slot, 

PICKING UP STRAUSS 

Finally, and in some ways most impressively, Sound 
Master II has software that allows speech synthesis and 
voice recognition. The current version can recognise up 
to 1,000 voice commands, so saying to the PC, H Play 
me some Strauss" could become a reality, 

The voice recognition software rs a cut-down ver¬ 
sion of Voice Master Key and allows you to train the 
computer to recognise your voice. Voice commands 
are simple using a headset provided with a built in 
microphone. With this powerful facility, it is possible to 
password protect your computer in a way teat moans 
that if someone finds Dut your password, they still can't 
gel in because they haven't your voice. This is line until 
you got flu and your voice goes husky! 

EARS THE VERDICT 

At £2D7 Ft's more expensive than some soundcards 
(although slili cheaper than the Roland LA PCI). Its 
strength is in the specification that included everything 
you could possibly want. It's costly bul worth every 
penny. Your ears wilt never cringe lo the vile sounds of 
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PALMTOPS 


COVER REVIEW 




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First seen in this country at April's Which Show, Hewlett-Packard and 


MAKING CONNECTIONS 


Lotus’s acclaimed HP 95LX palmtop PC, will be in the shops in two 
w eeks time. Stuart Clark got his palms on one ahead of the hordes,.. 


L ook a! the relative failure of the innovative Poqel 
PC with the benefit of hindsight and you could eas¬ 
ily conclude there’s no market for palmtop PCs. 
Sure, It’s small, light and uses memory cards for stor¬ 
age. but the keyboard's awful and it's far loo expensive. 

Poqel came up with some good ideas but failed to 
capitalise on what has to be one of the biggest market? 
q! the nineties. Bolh Hewlett Packard and Lotus know 
lliis and are well known as heavyweight purveyors ol 
respected hardware and software. HP with its long his¬ 
tory qt PC manufacture. Lotus with its quasi-industry 
standard business analysis software 1-2-3 - the biggest 
selling program in the world. So it’s not much of surprise 
to see the two companies coming together to produce a 
portable platform to large! the H million 1-2-3 users 
world-wide. 

The theory is straightforward enough. Lotos 1-2-3 
is a world standard tike the PC. its users increasingly 
wish to take their worksheet, graphics and macros 
wtterever they may be. What they therefore require is 
the applications software an read only memory (ROM}, 
so it's always there, embodied in a small, lightweight 
hand-held which can easily be hooked up to a desktop 
PC tor transferring files. 

So, after years of development work in conjunction 
with Intel, you have yourself a £445 +VAT mini-marvel 
with one-key access lo all applications, built-in Organ¬ 
iser tools, support for third parly software and 
communication capabilities. And what's more it's the 
size of a cheque book and we gh$ only 11 ounces. 
Coupled with one of Touchbase's World port range ol 
portable faxmodems and a printer like Kodak’s minia¬ 
ture Dioonix and you finally have the office any 
money-man can cany in his jacket. Poqel must be very 
worried people indeed. But enough of the promise - 
How does this palmtop perform 9 

UNDER THE HOOD 

Let's first have a look at whal powers it Two AA batter¬ 
ies actually These drive the heart of the 95LX:. its 
custom PC XT chipset developed by Intel which 
reduces the size of a standard PC from live integrated 
circuits to two. Occupying only 2.5 by 3,25 inches this 
tiny motherboard -offers performance which HP say s 
two and a half times more powerful than a standard XT. 
Running oh this is the first bush-in implementation of 
MS-DOS ROM. Microsoft's operating system, version 
3.22, which is booted from read only memory. Input, to 
memory card loaded software, is via a neat QWERTY 
keyboard, with a 16 line x 40 character superiwlsi LCD 


screen displaying output. 

The keyboard is virtually useless unless you can't 
type properly, Thais because only two fingers can com¬ 
fortably fit in this constrained spaoe. What's more, the 
keys are more I ke calculator buttons than real' keys so 
word processing has annoying difficulties. BlI as a for¬ 
mulae and number input de-vice, it's fine - which is 
presumably why 1-2-3 is on-board. Lessons have been 
learnt from the Poqet role model - the HP/Lotus market 
is for the monay-men; leave the palmtop word proces¬ 
sor to someone more reckless. 

The screen is more of an innovation though singe it 
is backlit by 12 volts rather than the more usual 5V and 
can thus be read in a greater number of positions and 
lighting conditions. 

With the £395 Lotus 1 - 2-3 
on-board, this palmtop will 
cost you only £54! 

RAM cards can be slotted home in the built-in 
memory card dm/e to store portable date. All this is con¬ 
tained in a unit measuring only 6 inches wide. 3.5 
inches long and one inch high. Power, supplied by the 
batteries, with a backup lithium umt to retain RAM when 
you change battenas, is ingeniously conserved. The 
microprocessor actually shuts down between 
keystrokes and the entire system goes to sleep after 
five minutes. Both these features allow a claimed aver¬ 
age battery life of one monih. There s also a mains 
adaptor you can hook up to. 

READY TO ROLL 

Besides 1-2-3 Ihe 95LX has an appointment book, a 
telephone book, a memo pad, a file manager, a commu¬ 
nications program and a financial calculator with tons of 
macros. What makes the machine nice to use is that 
there s a common interface to all the software. You can 
cut and nasle data easily between applications and 
each one is always open.. This means that in switching 
between tasks you are always returned to where you 
left oH. Th'S is plain common sense - it should be cte 
ngo lt in all notebook PCs. 

With DOS 1 -2-3 and the other applications in ROM, 
a quick check on the system status shows there’s about 
3BDK available tor running RAM resident programs, You 
can use the built-in utility to set aside areas of this spare 
memory as a C dnve RAM disk. 


You can also run any DOS applications you can find on 
memory cards - not a lot of well known ones at the 
moment ■ or, software protection allowing, download 
them from your host PC as long as you can configure 
their screens to the 95LX's 16x40 display. Thus the only 
means by which you can run DOS programs wils be by 
using the machine's serial interface The software 
included to make the most of this will also run on your 
host PC. SO 1 you can continually update both machines 
with new data by simply connecting the two with a serial 
cable transferring data at 57.600 bits per second - guile 
a healthy baud rate, 

The other neat option is an infra-red connection lor 
transferring files between two 9-5LXs. Here data can be 
copied between machines al up to 2400 baud as long 
as the machines ate less than eight inches apart. 

SIZING UP THE COMPETITION 

The Atari Portfolio and Poqel PC are the obvious peers 
of the 95LX. The Pcqel scores over both in that it offers 
an iO character display and its keyboard is, these days, 
considerably better than the 95LX's. The price is pro¬ 
hibitive though and: you don't get Lotus 1-2-3. The Atari 
Portfolio is a very popular machine but its display s 
even smaller than the 95LX and it only has 126K of 
RAM on-board. Of course, it only costs £199. The 
choice really depends on whal you want a palmtop tor. 
If spreadsheeting is your mair use then the 95LX is the 
one to go for - ifs PC- compatible and has the £395 
Lotus 1-2-3 included, So you could conclude that with 
this on-board this palmtop will cost you only £54! ■ 

DATA IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND 


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£527 

Con necHvily pack 

£80 

12BK RAM card 

£140 

512K RAM card 

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SIZING UP THE PROS AND CONS 


FOR 

A Lightweight and compact 
a Easy to use built-in software 
a toe red ibis bargain 
A Good screen 

AGAINST 

T Keyboard! tacks led 
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SOFTWARE 


REVIEW 


MULTI-TASKING PCs 


Do you use a hard disk PC? Do you want instant access to any of 100 of 
your favourite programs while you're running others? As Simon Walsh 
finds, Switch-it could be the answer to your PC productivity prayers... 



WordPerfect 


Sid* hick llus 


Whether ywVe fa the mtddk of lotus 1*2-1, WordPerfect or dBase, a keystroke mow you instantly to another prof/rmtu 


T he facility to seem to nave a number of applica¬ 
tions running simultaneously is not, of course, true 
mulli-tasking, but being able to flick between pro¬ 
grams in suspended slates comes very dose lor most 
practical reasons. Switcb-it is a utility which allows you 
lo dd just that. Each application can be highlighted on a 
user configurable menu to be launched, be given its 
own full screen window and full functionality and yet 
with one key siroke you can switch to other programs. 

This includes the DOS command line; you can 
trawl through your last 30 DOS commands to save 
retyping and Hick between the command line and any 
applications, In addition, other Terminate and Slay 
Resident (TSfl) utilities are unaffected; without taking 
valuable memory space away from your main applica¬ 
tions. Moreover you can use Swflefi-tf's screen and 
memory handling lo transfer screen dala between pro¬ 
grams; effectively integrating all your applications. 
Perhaps its most endearing leatures are the scope it 
gives you to continue working in one program while 
loading another and the neat facility to have multiple 
copies of the same program running simultaneously. 

SITTING THE SWITCHES 

Swtich’itfa not copy protected so installing it is simply a 
question pi copying all the files on the single 3.5 inch or 
two 5.25 inch floppies onto your hard disk. Typing 
INSTALL at Ihe DOS prompt takes you Ihrough a sim¬ 
ple senes q! configurations. You are able to specifiy 
which directory path the program should reside in and 
whether you wish Switch-!! to autoload each lime you 
start up your machine. Then it automatically scans your 
hard disk for executable programs and builds its own 
menu ready tor later switching. You can, of course, add 
to or subtract from the programs it has chosen, but for 
now this automatic seteclten is a very useful feature. 

CHANNEL SWITCHING 

Once up and running you are presented with a scrol¬ 
lable menu window, occupying roughly a quarter ol the 
screen, with program names which can be highlighted 
either by using the up and down arrows, entering ihe „ 
numbarSitYteh -it has allocated it, or by typing in the first 
few tetters of the program name. Pressing Enter per¬ 
forms ihe actual switch, 

Next to tie application names ate licks which rep¬ 
resent the programs currently in suspension and can be 
activated by hitting the F4 key; the active program tog¬ 
gle, Also on ihis menu are readouts of the memory 
allocated to each program; which can be redefined. By 
hitting FI white this menu is on screen, a help window 
appears which will explain all these items in more delail. 
There are three different ways of switching 

EXTENDED MEMORY SUPPORT 

SwftabJt can swap your programs from the WOk 
conventional memory into EMS or extended memory. 
Swapping in and out of memory Is obviously taster 
than using a hard disk. To access any extended 
memory, you need to era ate a virtual disk or RAM drive 
(VDI5K) to which your programs can be swapped. IF 
you have a 1Mbyte RAM system, with, typically, 3SCK of 
extended memory, it's best allow to leave up lo 256K 
for a RAM disk and leave tie rest for Switch-H. 


between programs. The first is to use the menu screen 
just mentioned, but after you've become mom familiar 
with ihe utility you can use either the active or hotkey 
switches Active program switching merely reties on 
pressing the ALT up arrow or ALT down arrow keys 
together within any program and you will switch accord 
ingly between the ticked applications in the menu 
screen, Hotkeying is the best way, but requires you to 
first to load Switch-lt's Configuration Editor. 

REDEFINING SUSPENSIONS 

Here you're able to add new programs to Sw/teft-ft and 
rearrange Ihe menu entry order besides setting up your 
hotkeys. These can be any key or key combination, but 
it's important to choose ones which don't conflict with 
the key combos found in the other program you use. 
The Configuration Editor also allows you lo change a 
program's title on the menu, alter the memory allocated 
to it, and change its swap area, 'Program arguments' 
such as the particular default for a .BAT tile can be 
entered here. But the most useful ol all user custom key 
assigning, and enough reason in itself to buy the pro¬ 
gram, are undoubtedly the mark and transfer facilities. 

Put simply, these functions allow you to capture 
data from one application and move it into another, 
leaving the first program unaffected. You mark the text 
or other data you want la transfer by pressing the 
default ALT-DEL, or whatever custom hotkey you've 
assigned, which then passes (he material to a clipboard 
or RAM buffer and will stay there until new dala 
replaces it. You then hit ALT-iNS to paste ihe data into 
the application screen of your choice. 

Before marking any text you should really specify 
what formal your receiving program is going to expect - 
there's no use porting spreadsheet numbers into a word 


processor and expecting it to format the material per¬ 
fectly. So you are able to specify bclh ihe sending and 
receiving format easily with pull-down menus. In addi¬ 
tion you can specify whether you want to port a whole 
screen of data or just a portion of it, H it's Ihe tetter, you 
can specify a rectangle in which text will be highlighted - 
extremely useful if you only want to port a specific area 
of a spreadsheet into a word processor. Likewise when 
transferring text from a word processor, you can specify 
(he start and end by selecting Ihe text with the cursor. 
Finally you can paste the clipboard into a word proces¬ 
sor, modify it and re-transfer it back onto the clipboard. 

Smtctr-lt is an exlremely useful little program which 
will pay for rtsetf in no time in terms of increased produc¬ 
tivity and hasste-free working. Swilch-lt is, available from 
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I Any IBM compatible PC i At least 512k memory 
l Al least MS-DOS 2.11A hard disk or EMS memory 


FOR 

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A Excellent documentation 

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SAVE £500! WIN 
AN AMIGA BUNDLE 

Commodore's First Steps software bundle is the prize on offer this week in the 
Express £5,000 software giveaway competition. But hurry, this is your last chance. 



S um Tier's fast ajpprgaching and we're 
ready to take the long holiday with 
riot a thought ot school. This week is 
me hatfway point ot the Commodore First 
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and continuing again with the second half 
of Ihe competition in the Autumn, 

So now's your last chance lo take a 
Firsl Step tor now and if you want this 
wonderful educational bundle you'll have 
gel Ihe weeks answers night. 

Included! in the pack is an emulator 
that allows the Arnica to run BBC educa¬ 
tional software. Although running BBC 
software on a BBC musl be a waste ot the . 
Amiga's potential if allows access to the 
thousands of programs already at use in 
schools. There's Logo, a graphic and Fist 
processing language that uses a turtle to 
teach drawing on the screen. This version 
can talk too, so it intends with Ihe user. 


allows musician and non musician to pro¬ 
duce complex musical arrangements 
using either the Amiga's internal sounds, 
samples or a full MIDI orchestra if you fit a 
MIDI interface and connect i| fo modules. 

Putting prose to paper is handled by 
word processor Pro Writs, with multiple 
font srzes and multi-task ability a couple of 
ils features. 

IntotHe Is a database that comes with 
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Artistic ability is catered for with 
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no later than 15 June 1991. 

1) What do they caff a term in the 
USA 

a] Term 

b) Therm 

C) Fraternity 
d) Semester 

2} What computer language is bun' 
died with most home computers 

a] BAD 

b] Machine language 

c) BASIC 

d) Latin 

3) What would you put in the drive of 
aCDTV 

a) Compact disc 

b) Floppy disk 
c} Hard disk 
d) EP 

4) What company is there a flute of In 
ell of us? 

a) Seflalield reprocessing plant 

b) Chernobyl 

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